House of Shame
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House of Shame
14.99 €
A refuge for the lost... or an incubator of hatred and revenge?
Australia, Victoria. Detective Sergeant Eleanor Smith finally gets her first murder case. At Harrowford Hall, a shelter for unwed mothers in the rural outback, the body of a woman—a local nurse—is discovered; it appears she was poisoned.
For decades, Harrowford Hall was notorious as a "home for girls in crisis." People like fourteen-year-old Jane McEvoy, who has no idea how she got pregnant. Or Marilyn Pollard, a frightened, embittered teenager desperate to escape. They were brought here by their parents, fearful of publicity.
But when Detective Smith arrives at the once-majestic Gothic mansion, she finds it almost empty—the shelter is being urgently closed. But the overgrown cemetery nearby suggests to her that Nurse Chapman's poisoning isn't the first suspicious death at Harrowford Hall... Where have all the "inmates" of this orphanage gone? And, most importantly, their children, born here? It looks like the investigation won't be easy...
Australia, Victoria. Detective Sergeant Eleanor Smith finally gets her first murder case. At Harrowford Hall, a shelter for unwed mothers in the rural outback, the body of a woman—a local nurse—is discovered; it appears she was poisoned.
For decades, Harrowford Hall was notorious as a "home for girls in crisis." People like fourteen-year-old Jane McEvoy, who has no idea how she got pregnant. Or Marilyn Pollard, a frightened, embittered teenager desperate to escape. They were brought here by their parents, fearful of publicity.
But when Detective Smith arrives at the once-majestic Gothic mansion, she finds it almost empty—the shelter is being urgently closed. But the overgrown cemetery nearby suggests to her that Nurse Chapman's poisoning isn't the first suspicious death at Harrowford Hall... Where have all the "inmates" of this orphanage gone? And, most importantly, their children, born here? It looks like the investigation won't be easy...
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