The Red Barn by Ruth Dugdall

The Red Barn by Ruth Dugdall

The airless cottage stifles me, and I cannot breathe. The glass reveals another world, but it entombs me. I am captive, but I have seen the outside. It is November 1826 and I am thirty-one years old. There is a storm brewing.

New Year 1851 Rector James Coyte arrives at his bleak Suffolk destination. Full of apprehension, he expects his first post to be provincial and unchallenging.

But Polstead is a village with a secret. A young woman murdered in a frenzied attack, then buried in a shallow grave in The Red Barn. She was just twenty-seven, and only six weeks before birthed an illegitimate baby.

Based on true events which shocked the nineteenth century Britain, The Red Barn is set in 1851 when Ann Marten, nearing the end of her life, reveals the story to the novice Rector. Through their meetings, the truth of the murder is gradually uncovered to its shocking climax.

Dugdall, Ruth: - Ruth Dugdall is an award-winning British crime author. Her novel The Woman Before Me won the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger in 2005, followed by the Luke Bitmead Bursary in 2009. Since then her novels have been published internationally. Ruth's work is inspired by her previous career as a probation officer, and she continues to be involved with the criminal justice system in a voluntary capacity. Having previously lived in Luxembourg, she now divides her time between the UK and California.

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ISBN 13	9781909039957
ISBN 10	1909039950
Title	The Red Barn
Author	Ruth Dugdall
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Legend Press Ltd
Year published	2012-08-14
Number of pages	230
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