Book description
One fateful summer evening, businessman Robin Timariot meets a
strikingly beautiful woman while out walking. They exchange only a few
words, but those words prove to be unforgettable. A few days later,
the newspapers are full of the rape and murder of Lady Louise Paxton -
and to his horror, Timariot realises that this was the woman he met
just hours before her death.
A man is swiftly charged and convicted of the crime, but a series of
bizarre events begin to convince Timariot that all is not what it
seems. Against his better judgement, he is soon sucked into the
tortuous complexity of the dead woman's life. But the closer Timariot
gets to the truth, the more hideous and uncertain it seems to be. And
far too late, he realizes that anybody who uncovers it is unlikely to live...
Robert Goddard was born in Hampshire. He read History at Cambridge
and worked as an educational administrator in Devon before becoming a
full-time novelist. He is the author of many bestselling novels,
including Into the Blue which won the first WH Smith Thumping Good Read
Award and was dramatized for TV in 1997, starring John Thaw.
