{"product_id":"the-house-on-vesper-sands","title":"The House on Vesper Sands","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Oprah Daily and CrimeReads Best Historical Novel of 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed a Library Reads Pick, Apple Books' Best Book, Amazon Fiction \u0026amp; Literature's “Best of the Month,” and a Powell's Pick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Millions' Top Ten Book of the Month\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Funny, eerie, tender, haunting and unsettling, smokily atmospheric, and fantastically enjoyable.” ―Helen Macdonald, author of Vesper Flights\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O’Donnell’s Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow, but burning with questions: why does the seamstress jump from the window? Why is a cryptic message stitched into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the case is Inspector Cutter, a detective as sharp and committed to his work as he is wryly hilarious. Gideon Bliss, a Cambridge dropout in love with one of the missing girls, stumbles into a role as Cutter’s sidekick. And clever young journalist Octavia Hillingdon sees the case as a chance to tell a story that matters―despite her employer’s preference that she stick to a women’s society column. As Inspector Cutter peels back the mystery layer by layer, he leads them all, at last, to the secrets that lie hidden at the house on Vesper Sands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns smart, surprising, and impossible to put down, The House on Vesper Sands offers a glimpse into the strange undertow of late nineteenth-century London and the secrets we all hold inside us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52379268514094,"sku":"9781951142988","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/1385\/1694\/files\/9781951142988.jpg?v=1785527984","url":"https:\/\/www.thebeeskneesemporium.ca\/products\/the-house-on-vesper-sands","provider":"The Bee's Knees Books \u0026 Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}