Robert Goddard is widely hailed as a master at crafting elegant,
serpentine novels that keep readers riveted until the final unexpected
twist. With "Hand In Glove," Goddard weaves a compelling tale of murder,
family mystery, literary scandal, and hazardous romance...
Robbery seems to be the motive for the death of dowager Beatrix Abberly;
shady antiques dealer Colin Fairfax is quickly arrested and charged with
her murder. Colin, however, maintains his innocence, and asks his timid
brother, Derek, to clear his name. Charlotte Ladram, Beatrix's loyal
godchild and heir, has doubts abouth everything, including the motive
for the crime. Her godmother was the sister of the great English poet
Tristram Abberley, who died fifty years earlier in the Spanish Civil
War. When long-lost letters he wrote to Beatrix are unearthed, they
reveal shocking secrets about Tristram's work - secrets any number of
people would kill to possess. Drawn together by their passionate desire
to find the answers, Charlotte and Derek follow a labyrinthine trail of
clues across rural England to Wales, New York, Paris, and Spain - only
to discover that no one and nothing are what they seem. A pattern of
evil is surfacing that will change forever their sense of the world...
and lead them on a quest even more intriguing than the Chinese box of
mysteries they've opened in the aftermath of an old woman's cruel
murder...
