It's summer, 1942, and after a tough couple of years, DI Tom Tyler is making a fresh start in Ludlow, Shropshire. On the outskirts of town, a convalescent hospital has been established in an old manor house to help victims of the war to recover. After a horrifying double murder is discovered on the grounds, Tyler must figure out how the crime could have occurred in such a secluded and presumably impenetrable place, where most of the patients are unable to walk or are blind, or both, not to mention deeply traumatized. To add to the puzzle, Tyler begins almost immediately to receive mysterious letters recounting terrible crimes far away. He realizes that he is not only seeking the murderer, but that the horrors of the war are closing in on this place that was meant to be a refuge.
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ISBN:9780771043291 (pbk.)
ISBN:0771043295 (pbk.)
Physical Description:print 341 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher:[Toronto] :McClelland & Stewart, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, a Penguin Random House Company,[2014]
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