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We Search the Island for Grace
A beautifully written classic gothic crime novel of family, secrets and loss
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A beautifully written classic gothic crime novel of family, secrets and loss. The stunning new crime novel from rising star and multi-award shortlisted author, Bonnie Burke-Patel. Gorgeously atmospheric and tightly plotted... a beautiful love story and a confounding locked-room thriller — Rebecca Hannigan Literary, lyrical... a...
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The new literary crime novel by Gold Dagger-shortlisted Burke-Patel is an atmospheric homage to Agatha Christie.
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A beautifully written classic gothic crime novel of family, secrets and loss.
The stunning new crime novel from rising star and multi-award shortlisted author, Bonnie Burke-Patel.
Gorgeously atmospheric and tightly plotted... a beautiful love story and a confounding locked-room thriller — Rebecca Hannigan
Literary, lyrical... a deeply satisfying whodunnit — Emma van
They gather at Saints' Climb, the only house on an island off the Somerset coast. Seven men with nowhere else to be at Christmas. Father and son George and Xavier Starvely; James, a taciturn archaeologist uneasy with the living; Victor, a French widower; Rik, the groundskeeper; and Chris and Nathan, the two men who want to make a documentary about this place and its extraordinary collection of medieval art. And the housekeeper Marianne, who seems to find peace in serving. Erected around the stone labyrinth built into the floor by monks, Saints' Climb is a house heavy with loneliness.
Xavier Starvely is a successful academic with a real life elsewhere. Yet he is wracked with guilt over the fragmentary memories of a childhood tragedy, and when his guests arrive on the island for Christmas, the deaths begin afresh.
A labyrinth is different from a maze. There are no false turns or dead ends: there is only one winding path, which, followed faithfully, will always lead to the centre. What will each find at the centre of the labyrinth? And can it save them?
Bonnie's debut I Died at Fallow Hall was shortlisted for The CWA Gold Dagger, The Betty Trask and The Val McDermid Awards.
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ISBN: 9781835015148
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 July 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bedford Square Publishers
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 141.0mm
Height: 220.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Born and raised in South Gloucestershire, Bonnie Burke-Patel studied History at Oxford. After working for half a decade in politics and policy, she changed careers and became a preschool teacher, before beginning to write full time. She lives with her husband, son, and dog in south east London.
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