Book description
The sixth novel in the Lydmouth crime series, from the prize-winning
author of the Richard and Judy Book Club novel,
The American Boy
.
When the body of Rufus Moorcroft, a middle-aged widower with a
distinguished war record, is found in his summerhouse, the verdict is
suicide. But both reporter Jill Francis and her lover, Detective Richard
Thornhill, approaching the case from different angles, discover there's
more to it than that.
The key to the mystery stetches back to a highly-charged summer before
the war, and back to another death. A local asylum plays a part, as do a
moderately famous artist and his wife; and - to Thornhill's surprise and
growing horror - his own wife, Edith. 'Taylor's Lydmouth series is
turning the classical detective story into a complex picture of our own
past' A bestselling crime writer, Andrew Taylor has also worked as a
boatbuilder, wages clerk, librarian, labourer and publisher's reader. He
has written many prize-winning crime novels and thrillers, including the
William Dougal crime series, the Lydmouth crime series, the
ground-breaking Roth Trilogy - which was televised as ITV's Fallen Angel
- and several standalone historical crime novels. His many awards
include the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2009 for sustained excellence
in crime writing, an Edgar Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America,
and the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, which
he has won twice - most recently for his bestselling Richard & Judy
Book Club novel, The American Boy
, which was also selected for The Times Top Ten Crime Novels of the
Decade. Bleeding Heart Square
won Sweden's Martin Beck Award, the Golden Crowbar. Andrew Taylor is
also the crime fiction reviewer of the Spectator
. He lives with his wife in the Forest of Dean, on the borders of
England and Wales. To find out more, visit Andrew's website, www.
andrew-taylor. co. uk, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.
com/andrewjrtaylor
