Book description
When William Dougal is invited to the cottage of a young doctor to look
into a case of blackmail, he soon discovers that the village community
is not as quaint as it seems. For hostility and deception brew beneath
the surface . . . As a network of corruption is gradually exposed, the
village is shaken by a series of chilling incidents: from a sweep of
thefts to a ruthless hit-and-run. And when tensions escalate into
murder, it's up to Dougal to piece the puzzle together - before another
body turns up. 'This simple summary does not do justice to the
complexity, nor to the subtlety with which the author portrays his
characters . . . this is undoubtedly Andrew Taylor's best book yet' 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.
