by Andrew Taylor (Author)
The sixth in the acclaimed Lydmouth series, from the bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London.
When the body of Rufus Moorcroft, a middle-aged widower with a distinguished war record, is found in his summerhouse, the verdict is suicide. But both reporter Jill Francis and her lover, Detective Richard Thornhill, approaching the case from different angles, discover there's more to it than that.
The key to the mystery stetches back to a highly-charged summer before the war, and back to another death. A local asylum plays a part, as do a moderately famous artist and his wife; Superintendent Williamson, now retired and loathing it; Councillor Bernie Broadbent - a man with more pies than fingers to put in them; a Cambridge don; an aristocratic unmarried mother, now gleefully drawing her old-age pension; and - to Thornhill's surprise and growing horror - his own wife, Edith.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 10 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 0340696028
ISBN 13: 9780340696026
Book Overview: From the prize-winning author of Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy, this is the sixth in the acclaimed Lydmouth crime series, set on the Welsh/English border in the confusing years after the Second World War.