BEFORE THE POISON

Robinson, Peter

ISBN 10: 1444704850 / ISBN 13: 9781444704853

Published by Hodder Paperbacks, United Kingdom, 2012

About this Item

Near Fine 1st Paperback Edition with very lightly creased spine, else Fine. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 448 pages.

Seller Inventory # 62422

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BEFORE THE POISON
• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444704850
• ISBN 13: 9781444704853
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Paperback Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

The Number One bestseller and winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Besy Novel

After years of Hollywood success composer Chris Lowndes wanted only one thing: to take his beloved wife home to the Yorkshire Dales.

But Laura is gone, and Chris is on his own.

He welcomes the isolation of Kilnsgate House, and the beauty of the dale. And it doesn''t surprise him that a man died there, sixty years ago.

That his wife was convicted of murder.

That something is pulling him deeper and deeper into the story of Grace Elizabeth Fox, who was hanged by the neck until she was dead . . .

From the Back Cover

Chris Lowndes built a comfortable career composing scores for films in Hollywood. But after twenty-five years abroad, and still quietly reeling from the death of his beloved wife, he decides to return to the Yorkshire dales of his youth. To ease the move, he buys Kilnsgate House, a rambling old mansion deep in the country.

Although Chris finds Kilnsgate charming, something about the house disturbs him, a vague sensation that the long-empty rooms have been waiting for him—feelings made ever stronger when he learns that the house was the scene of a murder more than fifty years before. The former owner, a prominent doctor named Ernest Arthur Fox, was supposedly poisoned by his beautiful and much younger wife, Grace. Arrested and brought to trial, Grace was found guilty and hanged for the crime.

His curiosity piqued, Chris talks to the locals and searches through archives for information about the case. But the more he discovers, the more convinced he becomes that Grace may have been innocent. Ignoring warnings to leave it alone, he sets out to discover what really happened over half a century ago—a quest that takes him deep into the past and into a web of secrets that lie all too close to the present.