Book description
Simon Meagor was a lonely middle-aged man. With a broken marriage
behind him, his life was centred on his antiquarian bookshop. In his
past was the memory of a murder trial where his evidence had resulted in
the conviction of a man who had subsequently killed himself. Now, to his
horror, the daughter of that man was applying for a job in his shop and,
almost mesmerised by her, Simon found he was agreeing to her employment.
Cleverly, over a period of time, Morwenna manipulated herself into his
work, his life, and finally into his flat above the shop. And then she
disappeared. When her body was discovered in a flooded quarry, at first
suicide was considered. Morwenna was suffering from a fatal disease. But
everything pointed to murder and, inevitably, suspicion fell on Simon
Meagor. Wycliffe became increasingly disturbed by a case which grew more
and more complicated as he explored many dark and murky secrets from the
past.
