'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe'

So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity.

Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind ...

Condition: Pre-loved book. Slightly worn cover and considerable yellowing of pages. 

Format: Paperback
Year published: 1993
Pages: 218
Sub-genre: Mystery, gothic horror, historical fiction
Imprint: Penguin Books
Product weight: 340g