num_pages: 272
description: The sins of the past break through to the present in this chilling tale of supernatural suspense. - When Benedict Doyle finds himself the owner of his great-grandfathers North London house it stirs memories of his time there as a frightened eight-year-old and the strange glimpses that revealed the darkness in his familys past through which runs the grisly thread of an old legend about a chess set believed to possess a dark power. And when Michael Flint meeting Benedict in Oxford starts to research his story chilling facts begin to emerge  facts that suggest the old legend contains a disturbing reality. Could the chess sets malevolence be reaching out to the present?
language: English
title: The Sin Eater
publisher: Severn House Publishers