Publisher's Synopsis
"There's no denying Taylor's talent." TIME OUT "Taylor is an excellent writer." THE TIMES In the drab 1950s a widower with a distinguished war record is found dead in his summerhouse with a bottle of whisky beside him, and the verdict is suicide. But Inspector Richard Thornhill and his lover, reporter Jill Francis, soon realise there's far more to it than that. The investigation leads to a number of complex characters, including an unmarried mother who lost her virtue and her baby when Victoria was on the throne. Worst of all, to Thornhill's growing horror, the inquiries lead to his wife, Edith, and to another death during a highly-charged summer before the war. But a third death is yet to come...
