A Dark Dividing

A conjoined twin's disappearance leads a London journalist to a mystery reaching back to the turn of the last century in this "hefty suspense thriller" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Journalist Harry Fitzglen is intrigued by his latest subject, the London artist Simone Anderson, whose enigmatic photographs hint at a mysterious past. What exactly happened to Simone's twin sister Sonia, to whom she had once been conjoined-and who disappeared years before? And how might Simone and Sonia be connected to another pair of conjoined twins, Viola and Sorrel, born nearly a century ago?

Every question Harry asks points him to the Shropshire village of West Fferna and a ruined mansion on the Welsh border called Mortmain House. As Harry uncovers the grim history of Mortmain, he finds himself drawn into a set of interlocking mysteries, each one more curious and disturbing than the last.

Set in three different time periods across the twentieth century, A Dark Dividing is "reminiscent of Henry James or Wilkie Collins... riveting and hard to put down" ( Portland Book Review).