# Scold’s Bridle

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- Book: [Scold’s Bridle](https://www.bookquiver.com/minette-walters/scolds-bridle) ([Scold’s Bridle.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/minette-walters/scolds-bridle.md))
- Authors: [Minette Walters](https://www.bookquiver.com/minette-walters)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-18-4456-558-0
- Published: 2006-11-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead woman's face, a metal contraption grotesquely adorned with a garland of nettles and Michaelma's daisies. What happened at Cedar House in the tortured hours before Mathilda's death? The police assume that the coroner will return a verdict of suicide. Only Dr Blakeney, it seems, doubts that - until it is discovered that Mathilda's diaries have disappeared. (P)1999 Barn Productions