Book description
The body of a dead man is discovered in an overgrown cemetery in
Bristol, the sign of the cross gouged into his flesh. At first it seems
to coroner Jenny Cooper that all the evidence points to a horrific, if
routine, suicide.
Then an enigmatic young priest, Father Lucas Starr, arrives on Jenny’s
doorstep, entreating her to hold an inquest into the death of Eva
Donaldson, a high profile political campaigner whose past life continued
to haunt her. A young man, Paul Craven, has recently been sentenced for
Eva’s brutal murder. But despite Craven’s conviction and the evidence
against him, Father Lucas is convinced of the man’s innocence.
Jenny’s lone quest for justice will take her to the dark heart of an
establishment who wish to silence her, and on an inner journey to
confront ghosts that have haunted her for a lifetime. For Jenny Cooper
answers to no one but the dead . . . M. R. Hall is a screenwriter and
producer and former criminal barrister. Educated at Hereford Cathedral
School and Worcester College, Oxford, he lives in the Wye Valley in
Monmouthshire with his wife and two sons.
