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Goddard's sense of place is strong. The Cornish market town of Truro, with its 19th-century cathedral looming over events spanning a century, provides the backdrop for the mystery and also for the shifting fortunes of the British experience. Descriptions of a grand family home transformed into a hotel and conference center, the tiny chain-pulled ferry crossing an estuary as it has done for generations, and Cornwall's unchanging and temperate beauty offer convincing detail beyond the usual place-name dropping.
Although the denouement is muddled by a confusion of identities and too many people thought dead resurfacing (both to Napier's dismay and delight), the general scheme is entertaining enough and just within the bounds of what's believable, given Goddard's manipulation of the reader's expectations. The central themes of revenge and greed lose some of their power when mixed with a subplot colored by a '90s obsession with sexual misdeeds, but these flaws do not detract from the pleasure of the whole. An enjoyable read, fraught with the tension Goddard's readers have come to expect.
"Satisfyingly complex...finishes in a rollercoaster of twists"
-Michael Hartland, Daily Telegraph
"Absorbing and intriguing"
-T.J. Binyon, Evening Standard
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Reprint. On a bright autumn afternoon in Truro the Napier family celebrates one couples golden wedding anniversary and anothers marriage But for one member of the clan the day turns dark Chris Napier prodigal son suddenly spots the ragged specter of a former friend Nicky Lanyona man whose own family was ruined by the same twist of fate with which the Napiers were blessed And the next morning Chris is horrified to find Nicky dead hanging from a tree where the boys once playedFor Chris the suicide opens a floodgate of doubt and suspicion How did his familys wealth slip out of the hands of a greatuncle brutally murdered before he could change his will Were the men convicted of the crime truly guilty And who is the mysterious seductive woman who claims to know the Napiers darkest secrets As the crimes of two families are exposed a series of violent acts shadows him and suddenly Chris knows hes in uncharted watersuntil a killer drops one last disguisefor the ultimate act of revenge. Seller Inventory # DADAX0385341148
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