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019 1355031307|a1391694349|a1407434078|a1407740089|a1410401617
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050 00 PS3601.R5753|bC87 2023
100 1 Armstrong, Jess,|eauthor.
245 14 The curse of Penryth Hall /|cJess Armstrong.
250 First edition.
263 2312
264 1 New York :|bMinotaur Books,|c2023.
264 4 |c©2023
300 326 pages ;|c25 cm.
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
520 "An atmospheric gothic mystery that beautifully brings the
ancient Cornish countryside to life, Armstrong introduces
heroine Ruby Vaughn in her Minotaur Books & Mystery
Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut,
The Curse of Penryth Hall. After the Great War, American
heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare
bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house
mate in Exeter. She's always avoided dwelling on the past,
even before the war, but it always has a way of finding
her. When Ruby is forced to deliver a box of books to a
folk healer living deep in the Cornish countryside, she is
brought back to the one place she swore she'd never
return. A more sensible soul would have delivered the
package and left without rehashing old wounds. But no one
has ever accused Ruby of being sensible. Thus begins her
visit to Penryth Hall. A foreboding fortress, Penryth Hall
is home to Ruby's once dearest friend, Tamsyn, and her
husband, Sir Edward Chenowyth. It's an unsettling place,
and after a more unsettling evening, Ruby is eager to
depart. But her plans change when Penryth's bells ring for
the first time in thirty years. Edward is dead; he met a
gruesome end in the orchard, and with his death brings
whispers of a returned curse. It also brings Ruan Kivell,
the person whose books brought her to Cornwall, the one
the locals call a Pellar, the man they believe can break
the curse. Ruby doesn't believe in curses--or Pellars--but
this is Cornwall and to these villagers the curse is
anything but lore, and they believe it will soon claim its
next victim: Tamsyn. To protect her friend, Ruby must work
alongside the Pellar to find out what really happened in
the orchard that night"--|cProvided by publisher.
650 0 Bookstores|vFiction.
650 0 Women booksellers|vFiction.
650 0 Murder|xInvestigation|vFiction.
650 0 Blessing and cursing|vFiction.
651 0 Cornwall (England : County)|vFiction.
651 0 Exeter (England)|vFiction.
655 7 Detective and mystery fiction.|2lcgft
655 7 Gothic fiction.|2lcgft
655 7 Historical fiction.|2lcgft
994 C0|bNQM
