The Hand of the Devil Chris Wooding It is a truth universally

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse

‘This clever claustrophobic page-turner delivers in spades’ Carolyn O’Brien

when a most influential corpse is found in a horse box at Newbury races

and in a nearby POW camp

Fleeing from an Anti-Tractionist sect

The Hand of the Devil Chris Wooding It is a truth universallyWhen young magazine journalist Ashley Reeves receives an intriguing letter he leaves his London office in the hope of reporting on an unusual species of insect the Ganges Red. That evening he arrives on Aries Island and encounters the writer of the letter Reginald Mather. At first Mather seems no more than an eccentric collector, happy to live in isolation on the island. But when Reeves unearths the horrific truth he finds himself thrown headlong into