Angela Elliott Books
Shortlisted for the Mslexia Fiction Prize 2022, judged by Hilary Mantel
The Nine Lives of Antoine Montvoisin
Paris, 1658. Beneath the garden of a respectable house lie the remains of hundreds of unwanted babies.
When Antoine Montvoisin discovers the truth and confronts his wife, Catherine, she decides he must die. However, Antoine is remarkably difficult to kill, and hopelessly in love with her.
A darkly comic novel of murder, marriage and obsessive love, inspired by the notorious Affair of the Poisons.
The Finish: The Progress of a Murder Uncovered
Covent Garden, 1769. When prostitute Kitty Ives wakes beside a murdered man, suspicion falls immediately upon her. With the gallows waiting, Kitty must uncover the killer herself.
A Georgian crime novel set among the theatres, taverns and dangerous streets of eighteenth-century London.
Some Strange Scent of Death
December 1900. Three lighthouse keepers vanish without trace from the remote island of Eilean Mòr in the Outer Hebrides. No bodies are found, and the empty lighthouse offers only questions.
Inspired by the enduring mystery of the Flannan Isles disappearance, Some Strange Scent of Death imagines the lives behind the legend. Angela Elliott was interviewed about the mystery for the Discovery Channel programme Unexplained.