Book description
Have you ever wondered what undiscovered gems lie waiting to be found
in your garden?
Lawrence Quilter, a man in a position of power, finds some interesting
records amongst his great grandfather’s papers. This leads him to
uncover a labyrinth of secret underground caves that have been hidden
for decades.
Julie, Lawrence’s long-suffering wife, knows that her husband is an
obsessive man with a quirky personality but she stands by him all the
same. That is until her husband’s behaviour becomes increasingly
worrying and she is forces to reconsider the man she has married.
One moment brings about a tragic chain of events which affects both
Lawrence and his wife. This is an exciting and unusual story which takes
us into the realms of the frightening as well as the fantastically
beautiful and delves into the very depths of human nature. Andrew
Garve is the pen name of Paul Winterton (1908-2001). He was born in
Leicester and educated at the Hulme Grammar School, Manchester and
Purley County School, Surrey, after which he took a degree in Economics
at London University. He was on the staff of The Economist
for four years, and then worked for fourteen years for the London
News Chronicle
as reporter, leader writer and foreign correspondent. He was assigned
to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the
BBC’s Overseas Service.
After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure
novels and produced more than forty-five books. His work was serialized,
televised, broadcast, filmed and translated into some twenty languages.
He is noted for his varied and unusual backgrounds - which have included
Russia, newspaper offices, the West Indies, ocean sailing, the
Australian outback, politics, mountaineering and forestry - and for
never repeating a plot.
Andrew Garve was a founder member and first joint secretary of the
Crime Writers’ Association.
