Book description
Tristram Abberley was an acclaimed English poet of the 1930s whose
legendary reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the
Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later, his
sister Beatrix is brutally murdered in her seaside cottage.
Her family are stunned by the crime - especially Beatrix's niece,
Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn her aunt as
fifty years of secrets begin to unravel. Beatrix is the victim of a
dark conspiracy, one that her loved ones are powerless to defeat. A
harrowing quest for answers begins, one that uncovers a shocking tale
of wartime greed and treachery, and a vendetta seemingly without end...
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.
