From the award-winning and bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian crime novel based on a real murder. 

The Murder of Harriet Monckton is based on an unsolved true crime. On 7thNovember 1843, 23 year-old Harriet Monckton is found murdered in the privy behindthe dissenting chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The townsfolk areappalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussicacid, and even more so when the autopsy reveals that Harriet was almost six monthspregnant. 

Drawing on the original coroner's reports and witness testimonies, ElizabethHaynes builds a compelling picture of Harriet Monckton's final days through the eyesof those closest to her: her fellow teacher and companion, her would-be fiance, herseducer, and her former landlord and lover. All are suspects. Each has a reason towant her dead. Brimming with lust, mistrust and guilt, The Murder of HarrietMonckton is a masterclass of suspense from one of our greatest crime writers.