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Zusatztext 'Brilliant! . . . Gut-wrenching plotting! alongside heart-wrenching portraits of the characters who populate his world! not to mention the top-notch police procedure.' Informationen zum Autor Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire! and now divides his time between Richmond and Canada. There are nineteen books in the bestselling Inspector Banks series - the critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards in Britain! the United States! Canada and Europe! and are published in translation all over the world. Peter keeps a website at www.inspectorbanks.com. Klappentext Bestselling author Peter Robinson turns his hand to an atmospheric and suspenseful standalone novel. As a successful Hollywood film composer! Chris promised his wife they would one day return to the Yorkshire Dales. After his wife's death! Chris doesn't forget his promise and so he decides to rent an isolated house in the Dales in order to grieve. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s! and that the convicted murderer was one of the last women hanged in England! he finds himself increasingly distracted by the events of sixty years before. An atmospheric and suspenseful standalone novel - a Number One bestseller in hardcover. Zusammenfassung After years of Hollywood success composer Chris Lowndes wanted only one thing: to take his beloved wife home to the Yorkshire Dales. But Laura is gone! and Chris is on his own. He welcomes the isolation of Kilnsgate House! and the beauty of the dale. And it doesn't surprise him that a man died there! sixty years ago. That his wife was convicted of murder. That something is pulling him deeper and deeper into the story of Grace Elizabeth Fox! who was hanged by the neck until she was dead . . .
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If Robinson is to turn out one-off novels as assured as this perhaps we wouldn't mind too much if Alan Banks was to retire and take up beekeeping in Sussex. Barry Forshaw, Daily Express
