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Bleeding Heart Square (Hardcover)

by Andrew Taylor (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Michael Joseph (29 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0718153731
  • ISBN-13: 978-0718153731
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 307,403 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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‘If Philippa Penhow hadn’t gone to Bleeding Heart Square on that January day, you and perhaps everyone else might have lived happily ever after…’ It’s 1934, and the decaying London cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square is an unlikely place of refuge for aristocratic Lydia Langstone. But as she flees her abusive marriage there is only one person she can turn to - the genteelly derelict Captain Ingleby-Lewis, currently lodging at no.7. However, unknown to Lydia, a dark mystery haunts 7 Bleeding Heart Square. What happened to Miss Penhow, the middle-aged spinster who owns the house and who vanished four years earlier? Why is a seedy plain-clothes policeman obsessively watching the square? What is making struggling journalist Rory Wentwood so desperate to contact Miss Penhow? And why are parcels of rotting hearts being sent to Joseph Serridge, the last person to see Miss Penhow alive...? Legend has it the Devil once danced in Bleeding Heart Square - but is there now a new and sinister presence lurking in its shadows?


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Andrew Taylor is the award-winning author of a number of critically acclaimed crime novels, including the Lydmouth series, the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy (ITV's Fallen Angel) and The American Boy, his bestselling historical novel which was a Richard and Judy Book Club selection. He lives in the Forest of Dean.
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Taylor at his best.....a feast for fans of The American Boy, 23 May 2008
By William (Buckinghamshire) - See all my reviews



For anyone who enjoyed The American Boy, Bleeding Heart Square is going to bring you hurtling back to Andrew Taylor.
War is looming, Mosley's Blackshirts are at large and the old class order is disintegrating in the uncertainty and anxiety of 1930s London. The mystery of the disappearance of a middle aged woman touches a cast of displaced characters and strange, unsettling events unfold. Their epicentre is a dingy house in a square stranded on the edge of the City. It's not a homely place.
This is Taylor at his very best: gripping, immaculately well researched, cleverly plotted and literary. A great Gothic read which kept me up half the night. Strongly recommended.



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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of his best, 30 Jan 2009
By S. Wilson (Nottingham, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bleeding Heart Square (Paperback)
Taylor has the knack of producing evocative settings and with the magnificently Gothic Bleeding Heart Square he has done it again.

A mixed cast assembles in a rundown boarding house, many of them linked by the ex-owner of the house, who disappeared four years before the story opens. Some want to know the truth; others would rather it never came out.

Outside, there are signs of change. The old order, where many of the characters have their roots, is feeling the pinch as death duties bite and many are turning to the British Union of Fascists for a brighter tomorrow. Characters fight against infidelity, unemployment and fear.

I left it with fifty or sixty pages to go. The tension was building, I had worked much of it out and I was keen to get back to reading it. At that point it was one of the best novels I had ever read. By the end of the book I wasn't so sure.

The setting and the characters are superb. The interlinked plot lines, the tension and pacing are equally good, and the ending is, like all the best endings of detective fiction, obvious once you know. Unfortunately something happens in those final pages. The pacing suffers, the tension is lost and the villain seems just too villainous to be true. There is one extra complication to the plot that would be better either omitted or given more time to develop. At the end there is a section "Where it all began" and Taylor tells of the real life murder he based the story on. It's interesting, but reads a little like a justification, as he tells us how bad the real life villain really was. I'm not convinced; the book alters many facts and could have altered one more in the pursuit of balance and believability. Sorry if this seems a little abstract, but you wouldn't want me to spoil the ending would you?

It's still a great book, but 10/10 becomes 9/10.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping, 31 Jul 2008
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This is completely engrossing from page one as you get lost in Taylor's fluid writing style. The book is a rich treasure trove of real substance with menacing psychological undertones. The heroine is drawn into the politics of the time, providing a sophisticated and absorbing take on the violent Fascist world. The Square itself is a real place (Bleeding Heart Yard in London), and immediately after finishing the book I couldn't help paying it a visit - this really concreted how much I loved the book because the sense of place is so vivid.
Highly recommended.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Atmospheric historical mystery story
This is not your typical crime novel or thriller with lots of fast-paced action and twists and turns. Read more
Published 25 days ago by Bluebell

4.0 out of 5 stars A Cracking Yarn
I bought this on a whim upon realising Andrew Taylr was also the author of The American Boy, which I had read a few years previously. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Hannah H

4.0 out of 5 stars A great read
Having eaten at the Bleeding Heart restaurant I was very interested in the historical perspective of this region in London. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Sanderae

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly deserving of all 5 stars.
Some authors can write a very good mystery and the reader puts the book down and that is that, finished, over. Read more
Published 2 months ago by J. Lesley

5.0 out of 5 stars A very good read
An excellent and well written mystery! This latest offering from Taylor is his best of 5 stand-alone (non-series) novels yet. Read more
Published 2 months ago by ctdak

2.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointed
I was really looking forward to reading this book, however I think the reviews has built it up to be something it wasn't. It was just a bit of an anti-climax at the end. Read more
Published 4 months ago by J. Kilross

4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite as good as 'The American Boy'
I really enjoyed The American Boy, which was a Richard and Judy choice a few years ago, so was interested to see what Andrew Taylor's latest book would be like. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jackie

4.0 out of 5 stars A great story, full of suspense.
Loved this book, a really good read. You are all the time wondering who is reading Miss Penhow's diary while the story unfolds. Read more
Published 5 months ago by M. Jones

3.0 out of 5 stars A slow start but a worthy read
Although I found the plot itself interesting enough;
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Published 5 months ago by Helen Simpson

3.0 out of 5 stars Competent but contrived
Apologies to all the other fans here: I picked this up because of all the good reviews but am slightly underwhelmed by the book. Read more
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