title: Murder (A Dr. Bond Victorian Forensics mystery)
author:  Sarah Pinborough 
description: "Deeply disturbing . . . The author's ingenuity in weaving her macabre plot becomes fully evident by the powerful, jaw-dropping end, and she skillfully instills fear in the reader even with innocuous phrases."<b><i><b><i>Publisher's Weekly </i>(Starred Review)</b></i></b><br /><br />
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  _Begin Reading_
  
  _Table of Contents_
  
  _Copyright Page_
  
  **Also by Denise Mina**
  
   _Still Midnight_
  
   _Slip of the Knife_
  
   _The Dead Hour_
  
   _Field of Blood_
  
   _Deception_
  
   _Resolution_
  
   _Exile_
  
   _Garnethill_
  
  > >  _For Louise_
  
   _ONE_
  
  The silence startled Sarah from a hundred-fathom sleep. She opened her eyes to
  the red blink of the digital alarm clock: 16:32.
  
  The yips of small dogs came from one of the gardens downhill, insistent,
  ricocheting off the ceiling and around the curved room.
  
  Quiet. The radio was off. Sarah routinely left the radio on in the kitchen
  when she was here, tuned to Radio 4. The conversational coo took the edge off
  the emptiness. Heard from another room it gave the impression that the house
  was full of charming, chatty people from Hampshire. Burglars might find that
  strange in Glasgow but it was plausible in the exclusive village of
  Thorntonhall. Sarah left strategic lights on too: hall, stairs, anyw