Book description
When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious
head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an
apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by
migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display
sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his
ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over.
After his injuries prevent his return to the army, he cuts all ties with
his former life and moves to London. Alone and unmonitored, he sinks
into a private world of guilt and paranoid distrust . . . until a
customer annoys him in a Bermondsey pub . . . Out of control and only
prevented from killing the man by the intervention of a 250-pound female
weightlifter called Jackson, he attracts the attention of police who are
investigating three 'gay' murders in the Bermondsey area which appear to
have been motivated by extreme rage . . . Under suspicion, Acland is
forced to confront the real issues behind his isolation. How much
control does he have over the dark side of his personality? Do his
migraines contribute to his rages? Has he always been the duplicitous
chameleon that his ex-fiancee claims? And why - if he hates women - does
he look to a woman for help?
Minette Walters is England's bestselling female crime writer. She
has won the CWA John Creasey Award for best first crime novel, the
Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel published in America and
two CWA Gold Daggers for fiction. Minette writes full-time and lives
in Dorset with her husband.
