The Devil's Daughters

by Diana Bretherick

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1888. When young Scottish scientist James Murray receives a letter from Sofia Esposito, a woman he once loved and lost, he cannot refuse her cry for help. Sofia's fifteen-year-old cousin has vanished but, because of her lower-class status, the police are unwilling to investigate. Accompanied by his younger sister Lucy, Murray returns to the city of Turin where he was once apprenticed to the world-famous criminologist, Cesare Lombroso. As he embarks on his search for the missing girl, Murray uncovers a series of mysterious disappearances of young women and rumours of a haunted abbey on the outskirts of the city. When the body of one of the girls turns up bearing evidence of a satanic ritual, Murray begins to slot together the pieces of the puzzle. But as two more bodies are discovered, Murray learns that his sister has unwittingly put herself in mortal danger. Now a desperate hunt begins to find both Lucy and Sofia's young cousin before they become the next victims of a truly terrifying killer. The Devil's Daughters is the gripping new novel from Diana Bretherick, author of City of Devils.
  • ISBN10 1409150291
  • ISBN13 9781409150299
  • Publish Date 27 August 2015
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English