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Praise for The House with Nine Locks

A riveting detective story that turns the genre on its head. Gray captures the complexity of postwar Belgium with empathy and ruthless precision. And he gives us an unforgettable heroine to root for at the ...

Alice Austen, author of 33 PLACE BRUGMANN

In Two Storm Wood Philip Gray brought the scarred post-Great-War battlefields of France to life; in The House with Nine Locks he moves to a grimy post-Second-World-War Flanders. Adelais de Wolf rein ...

Leonora Nattrass, bestselling author of BLUE WATER

Adelais is a tremendous central character ... Beautifully realised ... Enchanting ... Has [the] power to compel and intrigue

Time & Leisure

A riveting detective story that turns the genre on its head. Gray captures the complexity of postwar Belgium with empathy and ruthless precision. And he gives us an unforgettable heroine to root for at the ...

Alice Austen, author of 33 PLACE BRUGMANN

In Two Storm Wood Philip Gray brought the scarred post-Great-War battlefields of France to life; in The House with Nine Locks he moves to a grimy post-Second-World-War Flanders. Adelais de Wolf rein ...

Leonora Nattrass, bestselling author of BLUE WATER

Adelais is a tremendous central character ... Beautifully realised ... Enchanting ... Has [the] power to compel and intrigue

Time & Leisure

A riveting detective story that turns the genre on its head. Gray captures the complexity of postwar Belgium with empathy and ruthless precision. And he gives us an unforgettable heroine to root for at the ...

Alice Austen, author of 33 PLACE BRUGMANN

In Two Storm Wood Philip Gray brought the scarred post-Great-War battlefields of France to life; in The House with Nine Locks he moves to a grimy post-Second-World-War Flanders. Adelais de Wolf rein ...

Leonora Nattrass, bestselling author of BLUE WATER

Adelais is a tremendous central character ... Beautifully realised ... Enchanting ... Has [the] power to compel and intrigue

Time & Leisure

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Extract: The House with Nine Locks by Philip Gray

Extract: The House with Nine Locks by Philip Gray

Brussels, February 1952 The dead man had been taken away. The only thing still living in the charred skeleton of the warehouse was a tiger-striped tabby cat with demonic yellow eyes. It showed no sign of having narrowly escaped being burned alive, except for a sooty smudge on the bridge of its nose and a […]