Book description
Philip Bartley stops to pick up a hitch-hiker one rainy night, hoping
for sexual favours in return. But when the car crashes into a hedge, the
slender, blonde figure with the seductive tongue is nowhere to be seen .
. . Reverend Peter Darley has a mortal sin on his conscience, and as he
struggles with his faith, he finds that even the church cannot provide
sanctuary from his impure thoughts . . . A whiff of perfume, a pair of
hyacinth blue eyes are oddly familiar to James Connor. Will they cause
the Deputy Police Commissioner to lose his head? That is just the
beginning. There are three men with one woman in common. Now that woman,
Anna, is dead. Her lover Richard Torrey is determined to get at the
bottom of her brutal murder and bring her killers to justice. But his
investigations, helped by journalist Kate Mallory and Inspector Bruce
Daniels, are hampered by a series of inexplicable events. Meg
Hutchinson lived for sixty years in Wednesbury, where her parents and
grandparents spent all their lives. Her passion for storytelling reaped
dividends, with her novels regularly appearing in bestseller lists. She
was the undisputed queen of the clogs and shawls saga. Passionate about
history, her meticulous research provided an authentic context to the
action-packed narratives set in the Black Country. She died in February
2010.
