by Minette Walters · n/a · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425328725
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«La mordaza de la chismosa» is the mystery novel by Minette Walters, published by Grijalbo in 1996 in paperback (335 pages, in Spanish).
Mathilda Gillespie is found dead in the bathtub with her head covered by a medieval scold's bridle, a device used to punish gossiping women; the bridle is adorned with flowers and evokes Ophelia and the victim's passion for Shakespeare. Her friend and doctor Sarah Blakeney doubts the suicide and uncovers family traumas and people with an interest in her death.
Translation by Diana Falcón; original in English The Scold's Bridle. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger in 1994.
For readers of mystery and psychological fiction with family secrets and a rural English setting.
Minette Caroline Mary Walters is an English writer.
