This acclaimed writer combines noir and the gothic in a novel about two families entwined in their own unhappiness with, at the centre, a gruesome and unsolved murder. George Clare is the immediate suspect in his wife's murder - the question of his guilt echoing in a story shot through with secrets both personal and professional. A persistent cop is stymied at every turn in proving Clare a heartless murderer. The pall of death is ongoing, and relentless; behind one crime are others, and more than twenty years will pass before a hard kind of justice is finally served. This is also a rich and complex portrait of a psychopath and a marriage, and an astute study of the various taints that can scar very different families, and even an entire community.
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ISBN:9781101875599
Physical Description:print regular print 399 pages ; 25 cm
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