{"product_id":"the-hand-in-the-dark-1","title":"The Hand in the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the autumn of 1918, a party of London friends settles into an ancient Sussex moat-house built on the site of a Saxon castle and stained by eight centuries of murder, betrayal, and a family curse said to end in horror. The home belongs to the Herediths: a tired baronet, his formidable spinster sister Alethea, and a young war-invalid son who has brought home a pretty, restless bride from Whitehall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne guest is leaving for the front; one is a jewel hunter from the far corners of the earth, come to examine the famous Heredith pearl necklace; one is a newspaper man with enemies in powerful quarters. A woman lies ill upstairs, refusing to be disturbed, while downstairs the household dines on wartime austerity and old wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the necklace vanishes from its jewel-case, the house party disperses into a night of country roads, moonlight, and long-held secrets, the moat-house begins to give up its ghosts. What was taken, and what was taken with it, will pull the family’s buried history into the open.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wildside Press","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68176219832624,"sku":"9780809501892","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9780809501892.jpg?v=1792970284","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-hand-in-the-dark-1","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}