Book description
The fourth book in Andrew Taylor's acclaimed William Dougal crime
series - from the Richard & Judy bestselling author of
The American Boy
.
James Hanbury is a reformed character. Or he would like to be. He plans
to marry into respectability: his bride Molly is both rich and of good
family. But alas, on the very day of their return from honeymoon, Molly
is electrocuted. The villagers of Charleston Parva believe that it's
murder, and accuse her husband of having dispatched her as soon as he
had his hands on her money. Hanbury appeals for help to his old friend
and adversary, Dougal, who is himself far from convinced of Hanbury's
innocence. After all, he knows better than anyone that Hanbury is
capable of murder . . . 'In William Dougal, Andrew Taylor has created
one of the most attractive amateur detectives in fiction.' Spectator
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
