'A complex mystery, which both chills and entertains.' Thomas Waugh
March 1987
The past isn't dead...
John Lyon, a retired Detective Inspector, is still recovering from serious physical injury. Something is still ill at ease inside of him too. Lyon misses the challenge of solving crime and bringing the guilty to justice.
Lyon is enjoying a spring break near Fishguard with old flame DC Alison McConnell, when news reaches them of a missing eight-year-old French boy, Mathieu Deschamps. Mathieu is regularly bullied at school. But something more is amiss.Vervain is missing as well - a valuable steeplechaser trained by the boy's father.
Laure Deschamps, the trainer's older daughter who reared the horse from a foal, will do anything to find the horse and her brother.
Soon, John and Alison are trapped in an ever more dangerous web. But who has spun it? Someone inside or outside the family?
Lies will be uncovered and lives changed for ever.
Recommended for fans of Angela Marson, Peter James and Harlan Coben.
PRAISE FOR SALLY SPEDDING:
'Sally Spedding has been credited with being a latter-day Du Maurier.' Crime Squad
'Sally Spedding is a font of creepy stories, the kind of tales which wheedle their way into your mind days and weeks later.' Western Mail
'Sally Spedding has unquestionably got what it takes.' Crime Time
'No-one does evil like Sally Spedding.' Thorne Moore
'Chilling. Seriously chilling. Fully 3D landscapes, full of menace in themselves, peopled by desperate characters...A very compelling read, hard to put down.' Thorne Moore
'An intense, intelligent, visceral thriller from the get-go. If you thought Dan Brown was the last word in clerical depravity, think again.' Peter Guttridge - Reviewer and Crime/thriller writer
'This is a horror story and a mystery. If you like well-written, creepy thrillers, this is one to remember.' Geoff Jones - Eurocrime
An alarming story of surprises and shocks.' Gerald Kaufman - The Scotsman
'Sally Spedding has written an excellent, creepy chiller of what can happen to ex-pats who fall foul of their new neighbours. The perfect gift for those who boast about their French idyll they're about to live.' Carla McKay - Daily Mail
'A tale of chilling menace and powerful atmosphere in haunted fen country. A ghost story handled with real assurance.'Barry Foreshaw
WELSH-BORN, AWARD-WINNING SALLY SPEDDING'S DARK CRIME/THRILLERS, SHORT STORIES AND POETRY ARE INSPIRED BY WALES AND FRANCE WHERE SHE LIVES. www.sallyspedding.com
