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The Vanished Bride

The Vanished Bride

Paperback Published on: 01/10/2020
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The Vanished Bride
Goodbye, Sherlock Holmes. Hello, Brontë sisters!
What a refreshing, exciting Yorkshire mystery! Bella Ellis has done an amazing work of research about the lives of Anne, Emily, and Charlotte and it shows ... READ MORE
Beatrice Ballarini
The Vanished Bride
A joyous read
I must admit I approached this with caution as I love the Bronte sisters and am wary with any tinkering with their work. I am happy to report that I really... READ MORE
Jo Morpeth
The Vanished Bride
The Brontes go all 'Hetty Wainthropp'
It is the summer of 1845 and all four Brontë siblings are back at home - Branwell has had to leave his post as a tutor in disgrace and Anne had to resign f... READ MORE
Jane Skudder
The Vanished Bride
Most enjoyable!
As a big fan of the Bronte sisters, this book was one I definitely was curious about reading! It was lovely to discover that the author had captured their ... READ MORE
Rebecca Blake

Synopsis

'Brilliantly entertaining and original' C.L. Taylor

'A standout book' Rosie Walsh

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author Rowan Coleman, comes a special new series featuring the Brontë sisters, written under the name Bella Ellis

Yorkshire, 1845, and dark rumours are spreading across the moors. Everything indicates that Mrs Elizabeth Chester of Chester Grange has been brutally murdered in her home - but nobody can find her body.

As the dark murmurs reach Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë, the sisters are horrified, yet intrigued. Before they know it, the siblings become embroiled in the quest to find the vanished bride, sparking their imaginations but placing their lives at great peril . . .

Loved The Vanished Bride? Pre-order The Diabolical Bones, the next book in the Brontë Mysteries series now!

Praise for The Vanished Bride:

'Evocative and utterly enchanting' Sarah Hilary

'A gripping, twisty mystery' Angela Clarke

'A splendid adventure'Guardian

'A treat from start to finish' Jane Casey

'Happily, more Brontë mysteries are to be expected'TLS

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • ISBN: 9781529389029
  • Number of pages: 368
  • Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 28 mm
  • Weight: 260g
  • Languages: English

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The Vanished Bride
Charming, enchanting and humorous
I just adored this charming, enchanting and humorous novel based on when the Bronte sisters turn detectives. You are transported back to Victorian England ... READ MORE
MoziDogReads
The Vanished Bride
This is a delightful whodunit which will appeal to many readers who enjoy a cosy conundrum
‘The Vanished Bride’ is an historical novel by Bella Ellis. Ellis has taken the Brontës, before the sisters became famous authors and dropped them in a sin... READ MORE
Whispering Stories
The Vanished Bride
Mystery set in Bronte Country - Bronte sisters branch out into becoming detectives!
As soon as I heard this was coming out, I had that feeling it was the book I had been waiting to read. A book where the Bronte sisters themselves played th... READ MORE
TheBookTrail
The Vanished Bride
A Wonderful Book
This is a wonderful atmospheric book set in 1845 .The Bronte sisters ,before they wrote their classic masterpieces having all returned to their Fathers Vic... READ MORE
Chrissie Mortimer
The Vanished Bride
A luminous novel
From the words of Haworth Parsonage, December, 1851, I was transported back in time into the world of Victorian Yorkshire and the escapades of the three in... READ MORE
Emma Alvey
The Vanished Bride
Girl Power was alive and well in 1845
Girl Power was alive and well in 1845 and the Brontë sisters were amateur sleuths. No, this is not an alternate universe you have stumbled into but the plo... READ MORE
Nicola
The Vanished Bride
I wanted so much to like this book………
I wanted so much to like this book! It begins so well. The opening sequence is knowledgeable and assured, even the author’s pseudonym Bella Ellis has lite... READ MORE
Elite Reviewing Group
The Vanished Bride
Interesting idea
I usually enjoy reading plots that are a mishmash of genres, and I really dislike giving up on a book. Sadly I didn't enjoy this one and gave up part way t... READ MORE
jean
The Vanished Bride
Brontë sisters brought back to life
The Brontë sisters as 'detectorists' is an interesting premise to say the least, but blooming heck has the author pulled it off! She's nailed the character... READ MORE
Karen Perkins
The Vanished Bride
Nostalgic but left wanting
Set on the backdrop of the famous Yorkshire Moors, Bella Ellis (the pen name of established novelist Rowan Coleman) paints a beautiful picture of a setting... READ MORE
Francesca Brindle
The Vanished Bride
A delightfully Gothic mystery solved by the Bronte sisters, what's not to like?
I love the concept of this series - bickering Bronte sisters (and Branwell) investigating delightfully Gothic mysteries which, in the case of The Vanished ... READ MORE
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