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'Complex, with lots of sinister implications moves the traditional crime novel on to some deeper level of exploration' Jane Jakeman, Independent It is 1970. David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a darker future, brings home a new wife to Roth. Throughout the summer, the consequences of the marriage reverberate through a village now submerged in a sprawling London suburb. Blinded by lust, Byfield is oblivious to the dangers that lie all about him: the menopausal churchwarden with a hopeless passion for her priest; his beautiful, neglected teenage daughter Rosemary; and the sinister presence of Frances Youlgreave -- poet, opium addict and suicide -- whose power stretches beyond the grave. Soon the murders and blasphemies begin. But does the responsibility lie in the present or the past And can Byfield, a prisoner of his own passion, break through to the truth before the final tragedy destroys what he most cherishes

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781401322625
  • ISBN-10: 140132262X
  • Publisher: Hyperion - Acquired Assets
  • Publish Date: February 2009
  • Dimensions: 8 x 5.26 x 1.05 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
  • Page Count: 400
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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