Review

Kiss of Death

By Malcolm Rose

Published by Usborne

Twins Kim and Seth and their friend Wes visit the plague village of Eyam on a school trip. Although Seth is interested in the sad tale of villagers who lost their lives, Kim and Wes are more interested in scooping up money from an old well they discover.

Without knowing it, they pick up an old lead token thrown into the well in the seventeenth century by a man who lost his love to the Black Death.

Soon Kim and Wes have developed terrifying plague-like symptoms and Seth is left wondering whether he’ll ever be able to put things right.

 This fast-moving novel brings together the past and present and has an unexpectedly chilling ending.

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