Purcell shifts point of view between Agnes and Pearl Meers, a half-starved 11-year-old living in the poorer part of Bath who possesses the ability to channel the dead. Agnes fears the deaths are related and becomes overwhelmed with guilt, believing her “gaze has cast a shadow over them.” Her doctor brother-in-law, Simon Carfax, dismisses her concerns, but more of Agnes’s clients successively wind up dead. Then a client is murdered immediately after sitting for her, and another is found drowned nearby. With photography rapidly supplanting the art of the silhouette, Agnes Darken is barely making ends meet in Bath, England. A Victorian silhouette artist investigates a mystery with the help of a medium in the suspenseful latest from Purcell ( The House of Whispers).
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