Bellman & Black

Diane Setterfield

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • animal rights
  • cruelty
  • england, fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, ghost
  • fiction, gothic
  • fiction, historical, general
  • funeral rites and ceremonies
  • nineteenth century
  • partnership
  • strangers