num_pages: 345
description: The struggle between the two families for space on the Isle of the Dead, the overcrowded burial ground for generations of Venetian nobility, boils over and a fourteen-year-old girl is forced to pay the ultimate price. As the years pass on, parties complicit in her disappearance begin to suffer the consequences in a series of shocking deaths. A humble apprentice gravedigger is left to sort out the mysteries and subdue the ancient terror that threatens to destroy the entire republic.
language: English
title: A Bed of Earth
titlecomplete: A Bed of Earth (The Secret Books of Venus, #3)
genres: Fiction, Alchemy, Fantasy, Dark
ratings_count: 154
places: Venice
series: The Secret Books of Venus
publisher: The Overlook Press