Book description
Douglas Petty is a man who enjoys his reputation as an unreconstructed
male with a penchant for too much wine and too many women. Inheriting
his father's eccentric estate and dog sanctuary quietened him a little,
and marriage to Amy a little more. Even so, it seemed out of character
for him a sue a tabloid newspaper for libel when it printed a scurrilous
story about him.
His lawyers told him he had a good chance of winning the case, mainly
because Amy's testimony would clearly refute the story. But then Amy is
involved in a horrendous train crash and while the authorities assume
she died in the resulting fire, there is no body to prove it. And if she
wasn't killed why has she disappeared and, with no money and no other
family, where is she?
In a story of mesmerising suspense, Amy slowly reveals why she cannot
return to her beloved home, and why she can never escape from the lies
she was told as a child. Her knowledge of the workings of the human
mind - or more correctly the soul - is second to none Ian Rankin
Undiluted brilliance The Times Fyfield's writing is always elegant and
precise, her characters are finely drawn Sunday Telegraph Fyfield at her
best is compelling, disturbing, but always elegant Minette Walters
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. She lives in London and in Deal, overlooking the sea which is her
passion.
