Dead As Gold

by Burke-Patel, Bonnie | Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Published 03/07/2025 by Bedford Square in the United Kingdom 
Hardback | 240 pages
220 x 141mm | 41g

Adam Conlan has made a new life for himself in Morrow-on-Sea. After a wild youth, the goldsmith had settled down, determined to be around for his young son. But now Ophelia Richards appears at his studio door, asking if he will buy her gold.

The writer entices and unsettles him; he sees she is adrift in the same cold pain and loneliness as he is. At the same time, faces begin appearing at the studio window, an unwelcome gift arrives in the post, gold goes missing. Then comes death, then comes Detective Inspector William Kent.

Woven through with Morrow’s fairy tales, Dead as Gold is a modern gothic crime novel veined with love, violence, family, and desire. Humans still use fairy tales to explore their deepest truths. So who is a wolf, and who is a sparrow?

Bonnie Burke-Patel's first novel, I Died at Fallow Hall, was acclaimed by media and book bloggers alike for it's classic style with a modern spin.

Takes the trope of crime in a decaying seaside town and makes it fresh and relevant in a literary crime novel. Perfect for readers who love Angela Carter as well as Agatha Christie