Book description
The warmth of him, the glorious warmth, was fading by the minute.
In a huge old school house by the sea, full of precious paintings,
Thomas Porteous is dying. His much younger wife Di holds him and mourns.
She knows that soon, despite her being his sole inheritor, Thomas's
relatives will descend on the collection that was the passion of both of
their lives.
And descend they do. The two needy daughters, who were poisoned against
their father by their defecting mother, are now poison themselves. The
family regard Thomas's wealth as theirs by right, with the exception of
young Patrick, who adored his grandfather and is torn between his
parents and Di, the interloper.
The family know Di's weaknesses, and she has to learn theirs. After
all, she met Thomas when she came to his house to rob him. With the help
of an unlikely collection of loners and eccentrics, she sets a trap to
hoist the family members on their own greed. And on the night they are
lured to the house, Di will be ready.
Or will she? Frances Fyfield has spent much of her professional life
practising as a criminal lawyer, work which has informed her highly
acclaimed crime novels. She has been the recipient of both the Gold and
Silver Crime Writers' Association Daggers. She is also a regular
broadcaster on Radio 4, most recently as the presenter of the series
'Tales from the Stave'. She lives in London and in Deal, overlooking the
sea which is her passion.
