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The Lover of the Grave: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 3
Andrew Taylor
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The third novel in the Lydmouth crime series, from the prize-winning author of the Richard and Judy Book Club novel, The American Boy.
After the coldest night of the year, they find the man's body. He's dangling from the Hanging Tree on the outskirts of a village near Lydmouth, with his trousers round his ankles. Is it suicide, murder, or accidental death resulting from some bizarre sexual practice
Journalist Jill Francis and Detective Inspector Thornhill become involved in the case in separate ways. Jill is also drawn unwillingly into the affairs of the small public school where the dead man taught. And there are more distractions, on a personal level, for policeman and reporter . . .
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Praise for The Lover of the Grave: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 3
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Taylor s Lydmouth series is turning the classical detective story into a complex picture of our own past - Independent Andrew Taylor is one of the most interesting, if not the most interesting novelist writing on crime in England today - Spectator The people depicted here are real and believable and the drabness and genteel facade of Fifties England is skilfully brought to life. Taylor is, as always, adept at showing the reality beneath the surface - Sunday Telegraph How skilfully he recreates the atmosphere of the time through innuendo, attitude and detail . . .Taylor is the master of small lives writ large and he has carved a classic detective story - Frances Fyfield The most under-rated crime writer in Britain today - Val McDermid
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