When Sir John Fairbrother, head of one of the world’s biggest private banks, burns to death, along with his nurse, in a catastrophic fire at his Somerset manor house, Detective Inspector David Vogel finds himself dealing with a complex and mystifying sequence of events. If arson was involved, as Vogel believes, the obvious suspect is Sir John’s chauffeur/gardener, George Grey…but is he guilty?

Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery and bring those responsible for the fire and two further suspicious deaths to justice, Vogel uncovers a tangled web of intrigue which exceeds anything he first imagined.

About the Author

Hilary Bonner is an English crime novelist, best known for her psychological thrillers. Bonner, a former chairman of the Crime Writers Association, was brought up by the North Devon coast in the estuary town of Bideford, where her father was a local butcher and ran a tea shop. She was educated at the town's Edgehill College and went on to be accepted for the Daily Mirror Training Scheme as a 17-year-old school leaver.

She acquired her first job in Fleet Street aged 20, ultimately becoming show business editor of three national newspapers, The Sun, The Mail on Sunday, and The Daily Mirror, and was assistant editor of one. She left Fleet Street in 1993 to become a full-time author.

Her published work now includes fifteen novels, and five nonfiction books.

She lives in Somerset and London with her partner, the actress Amanda Barrie.

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