The Anatomy of Ghosts

'Absorbing, impressive, superb, creepy, sinister'
INDEPENDENT

The year is 1786 and at Jerusalem College, Cambridge, the ghost of murdered Sylvia Whichcote has been sighted prowling the grounds by Frank Oldershaw, a disturbed fellow commoner. When his anxious mother employs John Holdsworth, author of The Anatomy of Ghosts - a stinging account of why ghosts are mere delusion - to investigate the sighting, the uneasy status quo at Jerusalem is rapidly torn apart.

Holdsworth grows to realise that the sinister Holy Ghost Club governs the privileged life at Jerusalem with a rigour far more effective than anything the Master, Dr Carbury, could muster. And when Holdsworth finds himself haunted - not only by the ghost of his dead wife, Maria, but also Elinor, the very-much-alive Master's wife - his fate is sealed. He must unravel the circumstances surrounding Sylvia's death . . . or the hauntings will continue.

'One of our finest novelists . . . he's won every award for crime fiction . . . but I would put this as one of the best historical books that's come out for ages' JEFF PARK, FRONT ROW

'A proper old-fashioned ghost story elegantly written with a lovely ironic touch' RED

'Taylor is not only a skilful storyteller but a fine stylist, his elegant prose taking us deep into the minds of his vividly realised characters. A fine novel' GUARDIAN

'Marvellous. I could not be parted from this book' FRANCES FYFIELD