# Our Lady of Pain

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- Book: [Our Lady of Pain](https://www.bookquiver.com/elena-forbes/our-lady-of-pain) ([Our Lady of Pain.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elena-forbes/our-lady-of-pain.md))
- Authors: [Elena Forbes](https://www.bookquiver.com/elena-forbes)
- Publisher: quercus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4916-839-7
- Published: 2011-02-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A young woman's naked body is found in the undergrowth of Holland Park, London. Gagged, with her wrists and ankles bound, she has been posed, almost like a statue, kneeling as if in prayer - or begging for mercy. Stuffed into the woman's mouth is a wad of paper. On the paper is a verse by a Victorian poet, renowned for his sadomasochistic tendencies. Progress on the investigation is frustratingly slow, until a link is made to another murder that occurred exactly a year earlier …