Death Leaves the Station

The image of the book cover for Death Leaves the Station by Alexander Thorpe is a textured layout with the left hand side being the textured outline of a woman's white face and black hair, her hair curling around onto her check, forming the shape of joined hands with a string of beads hanging from them. There's the outline of a male body sitting to the left of the book title which runs down the black side of her hair / face. The background to the rest of the cover is green, yellow and muted colours with the images of flowers and leaves on it. Where the white of her face swings down to the bottom of the image, there's a horse and cart with a single figure driving it

A nameless friar turns up at Halfwell Station at the same time that Ana, the adopted daughter of the station owners, discovers a body in the desert during her midnight walk. But when Ana returns to look for it, the body is gone.

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