Author(s): Ackroyd, Peter,
Binding: Hardback,
Date of Publication: 01/10/2020,
Pagination: 192 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Canongate Books Ltd
Published By: Canongate Books Ltd
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781786898944
Description:
Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered.
The fates of the two cousins and Mr Cadmus, and those of Little Camborne and Caldera, become inextricably enmeshed. Long-hidden secrets and long-held grudges threaten to surface, drawing all into a vortex of subterfuge, theft, violence, mayhem...and murder.
The fates of the two cousins and Mr Cadmus, and those of Little Camborne and Caldera, become inextricably enmeshed. Long-hidden secrets and long-held grudges threaten to surface, drawing all into a vortex of subterfuge, theft, violence, mayhem...and murder.