{"product_id":"hawksmoor","title":"Hawksmoor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''There is no Light without Darknesse \u003cbr\u003eand no Substance without Shaddowe''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed''  \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e and chief book reviewer for the \u003ci\u003eThe Times,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and \u003ci\u003eLondon: The Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320011661694,"sku":"NW9780141042015","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141042015.jpg?v=1778239716","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/hawksmoor","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}