Blades of Justice

By: Helen Angove

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Paperback | 7 March 2017

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The scissors are blacksmith-worked, crude and blackened, nothing like any other pair in the village. But they ve always hung there at the door of the old house. Were they forged there, back when the building was a smithy? What is their connection to Cornwall s pagan past? Through three hundred years of history they have watched over the women who live at Treagove and where the scissors are, justice seems to follow. 1798. Despite the danger, the abandoned tin mine had always been the place where Eseld and Rosie felt safest. But that was years ago and Eseld's beloved Rosie is dead, and the place where they used to meet now has significance to someone else. 1887. If anyone deserved to be murdered, it was Davy Sowden. When someone finally does the village a favor, the problem will not be finding out who did it, but rather, who didn t. 1974. Mel never really knew her mum but is all too familiar with her dad's fists. When her black eye provokes concern from her best friend Bernadette, her dad had better watch out. All justice requires is a sharp blade. Who says the tool can t be domestic?"

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