Bellman & Black

By Diane Setterfield

Subjects: Cruelty, Fiction, gothic, Animal rights, Fiction, ghost, Fiction, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Nineteenth century, Fiction, historical, general, Strangers, England, fiction, Partnership

Description: Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.