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Hawksmoor

by Peter Ackroyd
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
★ 5.80 / 5
123241516789110

Whitbread Prize 1985.

Eighteenth-century London, and architect Nicholas Dyer is commissioned to build several new churches. Two hundred and fifty years later the legacy of the past lives on, as CID Detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates a series of macabre murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches.

”Mr Ackroyd is a virtuoso writer whose prose is a continual pleasure to read... An unfailingly intelligent work of the imagination.” – Joyce Carol Oates

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Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd (born 1949) is a highly acclaimed historian, biographer, poet, and novelist. He was born in London and studied at both Cambridge and Yale universities.

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