Book description
Four members of the Coverdale family - George, Jacqueline, Melinda and
Giles - died in the space of fifteen minutes on the 14th February, St
Valentine's Day. Eunice Parchman, the housekeeper, shot them down on a
Sunday evening while they were watching opera on television. Two weeks
later she was arrested for the crime. But the tragedy neither began nor
ended there... Ruth Rendell has won many awards for her writing,
including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best
crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh
in 1986, the 1990 Sunday Times Literary award, and the Crime Writers'
Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and
in 1997 became a Life Peer.
