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Our Fathers' Lies: William Dougal Crime Series Book 3
Andrew Taylor
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There's unfinished business between William Dougal and his widowed father. Part of it has to do with Celia Prentisse, who was once William's girlfriend. When her father, a historian, is found drowned, he is declared a suicide, but Celia remains unconvinced - not least because his abandoned clothes were found with a bottle of the wrong brand of gin and a slim volume of Schopenhauer's essays. It's not much evidence, but it's enough to send her godfather, retired British intelligence officer Major Ted Dougal, and his son William off on a trail that leads to a 1930s arsenic poisoning and a still-classified World War I court martial. Fortunately, the Major still has connections - and William's scruples are infinitely adjustable . . .
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Praise for Our Fathers' Lies: William Dougal Crime Series Book 3
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Lively and entertaining - Times Literary SupplementAn amusing romp - Sunday TelegraphThis one's a maverick . . . [with] a professional touch unusual in a first novel - Irish TimesA rather unusual book . . . with sharply etched characters and a rather shocking amorality - The New York Times Book Review
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