Minette Walters - The Scold`s Bridle

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I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again ...What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing ...

Mathilda Gillespie`s body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr. Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold`s bridle obscuring the dead woman`s face, a metal contraption grotesquely adorned with a garland of nettles and Michaelmas daisies. What happened at Cedar House in the tortured hours before Mathilda`s death?

The police assume that the coroner will return a verdict of suicide. Only Dr. Blakeney, it seems, doubts the verdict. Until it is discovered that Mathilda`s diaries have disappeared ...