{"product_id":"books-hawksmoor-by-peter-ackroyd","title":"Hawksmoor","description":"'There is no Light without Darknesse  and no Substance without Shaddowe'  So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . .   'Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed'  Independent on Sunday  Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times, as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and London: The Biography. He lives in London.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480660074769,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780141042015.jpg?v=1777550546","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-hawksmoor-by-peter-ackroyd","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}