From Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond
Dagger-winning crime writer . . .
Some memories are better left buried in the past. Well-known
author Graham Broadbent has managed to repress one particularly
dangerous memory for many years, but a trip home to a school
reunion brings back the shocking reality of a desperate youthful
passion.
It all begins with a knock on Graham's hotel door. His visitor
is nineteen-year-old Christa, who read in the newspaper that he
would be in town. She introduces herself as his long-lost daughter.
His daughter? It's true that many years ago Graham had a fling with
Christa's mother, an exquisitely alluring school actress named
Peggy Somers. The dates don't work, though. Graham maintains he was
out of the country when Christa was conceived. He couldn't be her
father.
He's almost sorry that he can't claim Christa, a lively young
woman who intrigues him in a strange way. And what about Christa's
mother, the formidable Peggy, who made such an impression when she
portrayed Saint Joan in the school play all those years ago? Why
would she have lied to Christa about her paternity? Why name Graham
as the girl's father?
Separated from his wife, at loose ends in his writing, Graham
takes the fateful step of searching out Peggy. It's a big mistake.
Peggy's life, which started with such promise, has been a major
disappointment. Now it's about to become a disaster. Peggy lies.
She fabricates. She fantasizes. She is the kind of person who will
destroy Graham if he lets her.
As Graham finds himself drawn increasingly into the turmoil
surrounding this woman and her children, he must deal with
deception and, ultimately, with murder. The sins of the past return
to haunt the living, and the lives of those who survive will never
be the same.
Writing with the piercing insight and wit for which he is
renowned, Robert Barnard creates a poignant masterpiece of mystery,
as thoughtful as it is entertaining.
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