When a young woman is brutally murdered in a sleepy village in Dorset, it appears to have been a crime of passion and her killer is immediately arrested. But it is the identity of the victim, not the murderer, that brings Inspector Ian Rutledge down from Scotland Yard to investigate. For if the woman was indeed the killer s wife, then where are their children? As a search gets under way, it becomes clear that the victim was someone else altogether. And still traumatised by his experiences in the Great War, Rutledge must sort through a tangled web of deception and twisted allegiances in order to discover which one of the emotionally scarred villagers is responsible for her death.
- ISBN10 0747273367
- ISBN13 9780747273363
- Publish Date 6 May 1999 (first published 1 May 1999)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 6 April 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Headline Publishing Group
- Imprint Headline Book Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English