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A country house weekend in rural Cornwall ends in murder and mayhem for crime-writer sleuth Donald Langham and his wife Maria."It's time to let bygones be bygones. Water under the bridge, right? What happened ... happened a long time ago."When Langham's literary agent receives a cryptic letter inviting him to spend the weekend at the grand Cornish home of successful novelist Denbigh Connaught, Charles Elder seems reluctant to attend. What really happened between Elder and Connaught during the summer of 1917, nearly forty years before - and why has it had such a devastating effect on Charles?Accompanying his agent to Connaught House, Langham and his wife Maria discover that Charles is not the only one to have received a letter. But why has Denbigh Connaught gathered together a group of people who each bear him a grudge?When a body is discovered in Connaught's study, the ensuing investigation uncovers dark secrets that haunt the past of each and every guest - including Charles Elder himself .
About the Author
Born in Haworth, West Yorkshire, Eric Brown started writing in 1975 while living in Australia, has lived in India and Greece, and has travelled extensively in the far east. He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories, and his novel Helix Wars was shortlisted for the 2012 Philip K. Dick award. He's published over seventy books and his latest include the sixth crime novel in the Langham and Dupré series, set in the 1950s, Murder Served Cold, and the SF novel Buying Time. He has also written a dozen books for children and over a hundred and fifty short stories.His only claim to fame is that he owns Scotland's largest collection of yeast extract jars.He is owned by a red and white setter, Uther, who exercises him regularly.He writes a monthly science fiction review column for the Guardian newspaper and lives in Cockburnspath near Dunbar, Scotland.
