by Peter Ackroyd · Abacus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349100579
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«Hawksmoor» is the mystery novel by Peter Ackroyd, published by Abacus in paperback (224 pages, in English).
It interweaves two plots separated by centuries: Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren, designs seven churches in eighteenth-century London with a hidden purpose; two hundred and fifty years later, detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates murders in those same churches. Ackroyd explores history, architecture, evil, and human duality.
Originally published in 1985, it received the Guardian Fiction Award and the Whitbread Award.
For readers of British fiction, mystery, and gothic fiction.
Peter Ackroyd is an English novelist, biographer and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. He is noted for his "technically innovative novels", the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.
