DS Jimmy Suttle investigates a murder in a house haunted by the past
in the latest from 'one of the UK's finest crime novelists' (INDEPENDENT
ON SUNDAY), author of LAST FLIGHT TO STALINGRAD
A rich old man, Rupert Moncrieff, is beaten to death in the silence of
his West Country waterside mansion, his head hooded and his throat cut.
His extended family are still living beneath his roof, each with their
own room, their own story, their own ghosts, and their own motives for
murder. And in this world of darkness and dysfunction are the artefacts
and memories of colonial atrocities that are returning to haunt them
all.
At the heart of the murder investigation is DS Jimmy Suttle who, along
with his estranged journalist wife Lizzie, is fighting his own demons
after the abduction and death of their young daughter, Grace.
But who killed Rupert Moncrieff? And what secrets is the house holding
onto that could unravel this whole investigation?
The enquiry takes Suttle to Africa and beyond as he slowly begins to
understand the damage that human beings can inflict upon one another.
Not simply on the battlefield. Not simply in the torture camps in the
Kenyan bush. But much, much closer to home.
