Death Magic
By CS Quinn
Fitzgilbert was pointing up at the attic window. From this angle, his house looked outsized and looming next to the small wooden dwellings near Bethnal Green’s grassy expanse. ‘It must have been through the window,’ confirmed Fitzgilbert. ‘He got in that way. The front door hadn’t been broken open.
Neither had the downstairs windows. But Nancy’s attic window was open. She never would have left it so.’ The window casement was small, Charlie thought, for a robber burly enough to inflict such damage on a victim. He glanced along the muddy road. Corn dollies were strung in doorways. Livestock grazed. Rib-thin vagrants dozed under hedges.
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Biography.
C.S. Quinn was a travel and lifestyle journalist for The Times, The Guardian, and many others before turning to fiction. Early in her career, Quinn’s background in historic research won prestigious postgraduate funding from the British Art Council. She pooled these resources, combining historical research with first-hand experiences in far-flung places to create her fictional worlds.
After many years in Brighton, C.S. has moved to Devon with her beloved partner and two children. She is seriously considering staying but secretly misses Pret and Wagamama.
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