When Lucy Cartaret dies, her journalist son Dan returns to her hometown, Fort Jude, Florida, in search of his real father and claiming to be investigating the mysterious deaths of three elderly women. Spontaneous human combustion, experts say. But why? Surely it's more than coincidence - and what links these deaths to Dan's mother? It soon becomes clear that something terrible happened during his mother's last year in town, thirty years before. But the social elite of Fort Jude remain tight-lipped. The families who run the town will do anything to protect their own - anything.
- ISBN10 0727882325
- ISBN13 9780727882325
- Publish Date 10 October 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English