num_pages: 288
description: '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 ...
language: English
title: Hawksmoor
titlecomplete: Hawksmoor
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Crime, Gothic, Literature, Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 4523
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Guardian Fiction Award, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel
publisher: Penguin Books