Book description
When Meredith Mitchell picks up a hitchhiker on a lonely road outside
Bamford one evening she is left feeling distinctly uneasy. What business
can this confident, yet secretive, young woman have at Tudor Lodge, the
beautiful old home of Brussels-based lawyer Andrew Penhallow, where she
asks to be dropped? Penhallow is constantly toing and froing from the
Continent, but that night, unusually, he is at home, and - with his son
away and his wife Carla in bed with a migraine - alone. Which is
unfortunate, for the next morning he is found murdered in the garden. To
the vicarious delight of the locals, who are quick to recall old
disputes, Penhallow's death results in some spectacular revelations
about his double life - developments which make the murder investigation
all the more delicate for Superintendent Markby, who knew the dead man
as a young body. Andrew Penhallow certainly had ghosts in his past - has
one come back to claim him? Ann Granger has lived in cities all over
the world, since for many years she worked for the Foreign Office and
received postings to British embassies as far apart as Munich and
Lusaka. She is married, with two sons, and she and her husband, who also
worked for the Foreign Office, are now permanently based in Oxfordshire.
