The Burial Plot

Author: Macneal, Elizabeth

Historical mysteries

Published on 5 June 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 336 pages
196 x 129 x 20 | 230g

'Ingenious' - The Sunday Times'I genuinely could not put this down' – Stacey Halls'A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it' – Gillian McAllisterShe wants him. He'll take Everything.

Bonnie is running from a terrible crime. She and her lover Crawford have gone too far this time, and now she needs to disappear.

When Crawford secures her a position as lady’s maid in a grand house on the Thames, Bonnie thinks she has found safety. But Endellion is a strange place, haunted by the recent death of its mistress. As Bonnie comes to understand the family who live here, she begins to question what secrets might be lying behind the house’s paper-thin walls. Because Crawford is watching, and perhaps he is plotting his greatest trick yet . . .

A Victorian gothic thriller from Elizabeth Macneal, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory.

'Taut, propulsive, beautifully done' – Susan Stokes-Chapman