Book description
A battered husband, a beautiful unhappy woman and a failed priest are
brought together during a trial one cold, wet spring in the west of
England. Melissa Wraxall thought that she was happy - until she was
summoned to act as a juror in a murder trial. In court she had to listen
to accounts of a horrifyingly violent marriage, but while the life of
the tortured defendant in the dock seemed far away from her own sweet,
golden existence, with a ravishing house in Bath, her successful small
business, her handsome husband, loving mother and supportive friends,
Melissa began to hear disturbing echoes of her own life in the evidence
which unfolded. Suddenly, all the things which she had prized proved to
be tinged with doubt and violence, and as the trial moved to its
shocking conclusion she found herself having to judge her own actions -
and those of the people she loved. 'A strong and compelling novel. I
enjoyed it very much' Elizabeth Buchan Kate Hatfield, who also writes
crime novels as Natasha Cooper, is fascinated by relationships: how they
work; why they go wrong; how they change people's lives. Born in London,
she worked in publishing for ten years before becoming a writer. She now
divides her time between the city and the Somerset Levels.
