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Saw this book cover for Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd over on Pinterest and was immediately drawn in by it, leaning in closer to the computer screen to try and pick out all the different messages that were scrawled on the chalkboard.
It’s one of those book covers that has a ton of stuff going on and makes you want to open the book and thumb through it’s pages or flip it over to find out more. In this case I couldn’t do that though so I jumped over to Amazon real fast to see what the book was all about and this is what it said:
In the aftermath of the great fire, eighteenth-century London is a city of extremes. Squalor and superstition vie with elegance and reason as brilliant architect, Nicholas Dyer, is commissioned to build seven new churches.
They are to stand as beacons of the Enlightenment – but Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each one.
Two hundred and fifty years later, in the same vast metropolis, a series of murders occur on the sites of those same churches. Detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates, but the gruesome crimes make no sense to the modern mind…
Wow sounds pretty interesting doesn’t it? I’ll have to add this to my ever growing to-read list. That’s one problem with the explosion of information on books thanks to the internet, it’s impossible to find enough time to read all the promising books I come across. But I can try :).
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