The Grenadillo Box by Janet Gleeson

It is New Year's Day 1755
and young Nathaniel Hopson, journeyman to celebrated cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, is installing a magnificent library at the country seat of Lord Monfort. During dinner a shot rings out and Montfort is discovered dead in his new library, a pistol at his side and leeches on his face. The immediate conclusion is that he must have taken his own life. Nathaniel, however, is not convinced. The gun suggests suicide, but what of the blood on the windowsill and the confusion of footprints on the library floor? And there is another strange detail: the small, elaborately carved box clutched in the aristocrat's lifeless hand.

When another body is found in a pond, frozen and strangely mutilated, Nathaniel's detachment is shattered. For this man was a friend. Now Hopson finds himself on the trail of a killer who will stop at nothing to keep a dark and chilling secret from being revealed...

As intricately crafted as a Chippendale cabinet and set in a vibrantly recreated Georgian England, The Grenadillo Box - the first novel by the bestselling author of The Arcanum - is a hugely enjoyable historical murder mystery.

Genres: Historical Fiction - Mystery - Historical Mystery - British Literature - 18th Century - Crime - Mystery Thriller
Condition: Good
Published: 2003 by Bantam
Pages: 416
ISBN: 0553813897
Weight: 290g