num_pages: 320
description: London, 1955. Three bodies are found in a house – but when the police search for the murder weapon, vital evidence is destroyed. One of the victims is former society beauty Georgina Gresham, prime suspect in the notorious murder of her husband, James, almost thirty years earlier. Beside her lie the bodies of her brother Edmund and housekeeper Ada.But there is a link with the past. In the 1890s, in a beautiful garden, three children played together. Their lives were secure, their future certain – until the youngest child was found with fatal head injuries…
language: English
title: A Little Death
titlecomplete: A Little Death
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 209
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Paperback Original, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award
publisher: Random House