{"product_id":"9780141042015","title":"Hawksmoor","description":"'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe'So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . . 'Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed'  Independent on SundayPeter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times, as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and London: The Biography. He lives in London.","brand":"Peter Ackroyd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45726607900990,"sku":"9780141042015","price":334.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780141042015_4ed18905-ba74-427a-8dd2-dd066480c405.jpg?v=1707218679","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780141042015","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}