The Unburied
Author: Charles Palliser
Our ReviewA Historical Murder Mystery of the Highest OrderIn 1990, Charles Palliser made a spectacular debut with The Quincunx, a huge, densely plotted book that illuminates, in extraordinary detail, virtually every level of English society in the early 19th century. In his fourth novel, The Unburied, Palliser turns to the late Victorian era to give us an equally autho….Read More
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