Bellman & Black

By Diane Setterfield

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

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.