The House With Nine Locks

The House With Nine Locks by Philip Gray is out now, published January 23, 2025.

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The House With Nine Locks Release Date: January 23, 2025

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From the author of BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Choice Two Storm Wood comes a compelling and sweeping historical suspense novel that follows a master forger, the menacing detective on their tail, and an ambitious young woman who becomes embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

In post-war Flanders Adelais de Wolf’s family is slowly but surely coming apart after an event nobody will talk her mother evermore lost to religious devotion, her father to alcohol. But with the death of a beloved uncle, Adelais finds herself in receipt of an unexpected a shuttered house in a rundown district and its contents – contents which hold the promise of wealth and independence.

All that is required is application, nerve, and a willingness to operate outside of the law. Adelais takes the plunge, and her fortunes are transformed. But with her rise comes her victimless crimes may not be as victimless as she supposed. Nor has she counted on the singular fanaticism of Major de Smet of the Federal Gendarmerie, a brutal man who never forgives and never forgets. Embroiled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, will Adelais find that her new life comes at too high a price?

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Genre: Historical Mystery

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