It is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the forty-third day of this walk, he sees a cliff climber fall to his death – a death apparently witnessed by a surfer in a nearby cove. Shortly afterwards, Lynley encounters a young woman from Bristol whose personal history is a blank before her thirteenth year. These events propel him into a case that brings Barbara Havers from London and thrusts both detectives into a world where revenge is only one of the motives they must sift through to identify a killer.
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A first-class, page-turning read
On WHAT CAME BEFORE HE SHOT HER: 'She's brilliant.'
Absolutely remarkable and a great achievement'
On A TRAITOR TO MEMORY: 'Absorbing . . . the pleasure of the book is the slow, surprising and often shocking unravelling of the various links between the main characters'
George is one of the best crime novelists around
Her account of surfers' lives, with their terrifying techniques and almost religious passion is worth reading
Ms George is the connoisseur's crime writer