By the Pricking of My ThumbsAn old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about something behind the fireplace, Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving

he names two local gang members as the shooters

Thomas Edgar

On 15th March 1878 Lord Littleby

Brilliantly capturing the glamour of post-war America and the shabbiness of 1970s Dublin

it cuts through the apparatus of life to the vivid moment

great battle

humane and heartbreaking

Throughout

accrued through drug-trafficking

The multiple-award-winning Francis Spufford returns

But once Brunetti begins investigating this Venetian underworld

Elizabeth is grieving