{"product_id":"hawksmoor-peter-ackroyd-9780141042015","title":"Hawksmoor","description":"'There is no Light without Darknesse \nand no Substance without Shaddowe'\nSo proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . . \n'Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed' Independent on Sunday\nPeter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times, as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and London: The Biography. He lives in London.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67981220118816,"sku":"9780141042015","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780141042015_87524.jpg?v=1792994743","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/hawksmoor-peter-ackroyd-9780141042015","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}