The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal

The Burial Plot is a spellbinding historical Gothic thriller about murder and manipulation, set in Victorian London. 

London, 1839. With the cemeteries full and money to be made in death, tricksters Crawford and Bonnie survive on wicked schemes and ill-gotten coin. But one blistering evening, their fortunes flip. A man lies in a pool of blood at Bonnie’s feet and now she needs to disappear.

Crawford secures her a position as lady’s maid in a grand house on the Thames. As Bonnie comes to understand the family – the eccentric Mr Moncrieff, obsessively drawing mausoleums for his dead wife, and their peculiar daughter Cissie, scribbling imaginary love letters to herself – she begins to question what secrets are lying behind the house’s paper-thin walls and whether her own presence here was planned from the beginning.

Because Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . .

REVIEWS

"You know the books everyone loves? Wuthering Heights, And Then There Were None, I Capture the Castle? The Burial Plot deserves a spot right alongside them . . . I feverishly devoured every perfect page of Elizabeth McNeal’s tense, terrifying, and absolutely brilliant novel. It’s an irresistible work of genius." - Nina de Gramont, author of The Christie Affair

"Taut, propulsive, beautifully done."  – Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of Pandora

"Ingenious." - The Sunday Times

PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover Edition
Publisher; Picador
ISBN: 978-1529090949
Pages: 336