Book description
It was his hideout, but now he did not feel safe at all.
The birds had suddenly gone quiet, and the boy was certain the
man was in the woods below him. And then a voice fractured the
unnatural hush.
'I know you're in there.' The voice was harsh but high-pitched,
sounding strained.
It chilled the boy.
Thirty years ago, Jack Renoir's idyllic childhood on his uncle's
California apple farm was shattered when he witnessed a brutal murder.
With a single shot, his life changed forever.
Three decades later, Renoir is a man preoccupied with secrets and
lies - a man who's forgotten how to trust. But when Kate Palmer walks
into his San Francisco office, his carefully-controlled world is
turned upside down. As his defences dissolve, Renoir moves to England
with Kate to make a new start. But old habits die hard, and he is soon
drawn into a murky world he hoped he had left behind for good. When
his efforts to help Kate backfire, Renoir finds his unresolved past
threatening to destroy his future...
Andrew Rosenheim came to England from America as a Rhodes Scholar in
1977 and has lived near Oxford ever since. He is the author of
Stillriver
(published by Hutchinson in 2004). He is married and has twin
daughters.
