The Buried Circle

di Jenni Mills (Autore)

William Collins, 2017

A pacy literary thriller, ‘The Buried Circle’ is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary characters The village of Avebury is one of the most mysterious places in the English countryside. Surrounded by ancient standing stones, crop circles and burial mounds, this is a place where all is not as it seems. In 1938, the archaeologist Alexander Keiller – a millionaire playboy with a passion for ritual magic – plans to reconstruct the 5000-year-old stone circle at Avebury. As war looms, Frannie Robinson and her boyfriend Davey are among those who fall under his spell, with fatal results. Seventy years later, Frannie's granddaughter India, filming in the area, survives a helicopter crash. Devastated, she decides to move back to Avebury and her grandmother, setting out on a quest to discover the truth about her family. But why is her grandmother so reluctant to talk about Keiller and the war? And exactly whose past is India unearthing…? The Buried Circle by Jenni Mills, a top-notch literary thriller, delves deeper into the mysteries of Avebury, unearthing secrets that have been buried for decades. The crime that occurred in the past, the secrets that were kept, all come to light in a chilling revelation. For fans of Sarah Maine (The House Between Tides), Ian Rankin (Standing in Another Man's Grave), Neil Spring (The Burning House), Phil Rickman (All of a Winter's Night), and Elly Griffiths (The Last Word).

• Autore: Jenni Mills
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 17:31:45
• Anno edizione: 2017
• Editore: William Collins
• EAN: 9780007329755

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