The Clockwork Girl'Deliciously creepy, alive with the rustling silks, rotten smells and lethal egos of a divided Paris' Sarah Hilary 'Instantly draws you in, immersing the reader in a Paris of filth and greed, money and sin' Laura Shepherd Robinson Paris, 1750. In the midst of an icy winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, chambermaid Madeleine Chastel arrives at the home of the city's celebrated clockmaker and his clever, unworldly daughter. Madeleine is hiding a

Caitlin's life changes from the moment she sees him walking across the causeway one hot summer's day

is disconcerted to find his masked target has already been assassinated

it moves from the mundane to the magical

surfed the web and painted a hideous black sun on the bedroom ceiling before he left in broad daylight

Imogen Webb is determined to track down the killer of her friend

As their secrets unfold

The murky alleyways of the City are crowded with people from all walks of life

the man who brought them together was killed in what Carr suspects was a setup

Who could be the perpetrator of such malice

a murder and its consequences compel him to return

eager to beat everybody to the loot

'He came on the shortest day of the year between the storms that carried the sea twenty miles inland and the great snow of that winter