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From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a Gothic fantasy horror - The Death of Jane Lawrence.

“Intense and amazing! It’s like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Mexican Gothic meets Crimson Peak.” (BookRiot)

Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive Doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. 

Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid man - one who cannot tell reality from nightmare and fears Jane is an apparition come to haunt him. By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall and with the man to whom she has so hastily bound her safety. 

Set in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Caitlin Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. This Crimson Peak-inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson and Rebecca and will leave listeners shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished. 

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press  

“Claustrophobic in a way that Starling does best, The Death Of Jane Lawrence is tense and unsettling, treading the finest line between brilliance and madness. I absolutely adored it.” (Emily Duncan, New York Times best-selling author of the Something Dark and Holy trilogy) 

"A magnificent ode to gothic horror, Starling meticulously unravels beloved tropes to create a horrifically satisfying creation of her own. I loved every moment of this unsettling and brilliant tale!" (Erin Craig, New York Times best-selling author of House of Salt and Sorrows)

In a chilling fusion of gothic horror and psychological suspense, "The Death of Jane Lawrence" by Caitlin Starling presents a haunting tale of madness, deceit, and the unfathomable price of forbidden knowledge.

Venture into the eerie town of Peculiar, where the Lawrence family estate looms as a disquieting monument to a past shrouded in mystery. As Jane Lawrence, a young scholar with an insatiable curiosity for the occult, delves into the dark secrets of her ancestors, she finds herself entangled in a web of sinister events.

Haunted by visions of a spectral figure and plagued by whispers from beyond the grave, Jane's sanity begins to unravel. The lines between reality and illusion blur as she uncovers a disturbing tapestry of forgotten tragedies, forbidden love, and a malevolent force that hungers for her very soul.

With each step closer to the truth, Jane must confront her own demons while navigating a treacherous landscape of ancient curses, forbidden grimoires, and the lurking presence of those who would see her succumb to the same fate that befell her ancestors.

As the boundaries between life and death, sanity and madness dissolve, Jane must unravel the twisted enigma at the heart of the Lawrence family's legacy before it consumes her entirely. "The Death of Jane Lawrence" will grip you from the very first page, taking you on a heart-stopping journey through a realm where shadows hide unspeakable horrors and the price of knowledge is paid in blood.