TY - BOOK AU - Purcell,Laura TI - The shape of darkness SN - 9780143135548 PY - 2021/// CY - [New York] PB - Penguin Books KW - Artists KW - Fiction KW - Silhouettes KW - Mediums KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Secrecy KW - Bath (England) KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Paranormal fiction KW - Detective and mystery fiction N2 - "As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another... Why is the killer seemingly targeting her business? Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back"-- ER -