Time spent messing about on the river isn't supposed to end with a brutal murder.
The staff at Stoley's Boatyard were used to holidaymakers returning their pleasure cruisers a little late after a week or so exploring the network of waterways around Norchester. They were not used to finding their yachts burned almost beyond recognition with the charred remains of a client still aboard.
Taking on the murder investigation, Chief Inspector George Gently faces an enquiry like no other he has ever handled. Somewhere beneath the lies of the victim's wife, somewhere obscured by the brittle edge of her daughter's fear, somewhere hidden by her son's hysteria, lies the truth.
Gently's only hope is to sweep aside the litter of chaos and confusion to uncover the identity of the killer.
- ISBN10 0094759200
- ISBN13 9780094759206
- Publish Date 14 October 1996
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 27 August 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Constable
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 186
- Language English