Book description
Martin Radford, history graduate, disaffected and unemployed, jumps
at the chance to visit Madeira at the invitation of an old university
friend who is running the local English language newspaper. Luck
continues to run for him when he is offered a lucrative commission to
research the mysterious resignation and subsequent obscure retirement
on Madeira of Edwardian cabinet minister Edwin Strafford. However, his
investigation triggers a bizarre and inveitably violent train of
events which remoreslessly entagles him and those who believed they
had escaped the spectre of crimes long past but never paid for.
Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire, where he and his wife now live.
He read history at Peterhouse, Cambridge and worked as an educational
administrator in Devon before becoming a full-time writer. Other titles
by the same author include: In Pale Battalions, Painting the Darkness,
Into the Blue, Take No Farewell, Hand in Glove and Closed Circle. Past
Caring was his first novel.
