{"product_id":"9780330336635","title":"The Scold's Bridle","description":"Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year\r\nI wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again . . . What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing . . . \r\n\r\n Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead woman's face, a metal contraption grotesquely adorned with a garland of nettles and Michaelmas daisies. What happened at Cedar House in the tortured hours before Mathilda's death?\r\n\r\n The police assume that the coroner will return a verdict of suicide. Only Dr Blakeney, it seems, doubts the verdict. Until it is discovered that Mathilda's diaries have disappeared . . .\r\n\r\n 'An atmosphere of tantalizing, overpowering menace . . . The tradition of the English whodunnit has passed into the safe hands and dangerous imagination of Minette Walters' The Times","brand":"Minette Walters","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43493778686112,"sku":"9780330336635","price":4.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_78b56f49-36da-4869-8d1c-c880944ecec7.jpg?v=1678477965","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780330336635","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}