Author: Andrew Taylor Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Crime
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Love and need make unexpected bedfellows, and both are blind. As the grip of a long hard winter tightens on Lydmouth, a dead woman calls the dying in a seance behind net curtains. Two provincial newspapers are in the throes of a bitter circulation war. A lorry-driver broods, and an office boy loses his heart. Britain is basking in the warm glow of post-war tranquillity, but in the quiet town of Lydmouth, darker forces are at play. The rats are fed on bread and milk, a gentleman's yellow kid glove is mislaid on a train, and something disgusting is happening at Mr Prout's toyshop. Returning to a town shrouded in intrigue and suspicion, Jill Francis becomes acting editor of the Gazette. Meanwhile, there's no pleasure left in the life of Detective Chief Inspector Richard Thornhill. Only a corpse, a television set and the promise of trouble to come.
This book is part of the "Lydmouth" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Naked to the Hangman" First published in 2006 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Where Roses Fade" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "An Air That Kills" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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