In this “exceptional” British mystery by a Gold Dagger winner, an
aging aristocrat and her longtime lover explore the dark events of
their shared past (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Lady Lucy
Vereker Seddon is dying of a terminal illness when something she hears
on the radio reminds her of her younger, darker days and inspires her
to question her dearest friend and former lover, Paul Ackerley, about
his role in a series of past family tragedies. There was the strange
death of Lucy’s brother-in-law, the brute Gerry Grantworth, in the
Yellow Room of Blatchards—the huge and ugly Vereker estate—and the
subsequent destruction by fire of the sprawling manor house. And then
there was the infamous Seddon Affair, the sordid scandal that rocked
Great Britain in the midst of the Suez Crisis. Surprised to hear
that the woman he has always loved suspects him to be the culprit
behind these events—especially since he always assumed Lucy herself
helped engineer them—Paul suggests that they each record their
memories and compare them. By doing so, perhaps they will both find
their way to the long-hidden and terrible truth. Told through an
alternating series of memories and flashbacks, The Yellow Room
Conspiracy brilliantly re-creates a post-war era and a world of
privilege corrupted by greed, jealousy, lust, and lies. The
astonishing Peter Dickinson, one of Britain’s greatest suspense
novelists of the late twentieth century, ingeniously wraps a love
story around a mystery and once again solidifies his position
alongside luminaries such as P. D. James, Ruth Rendell, Peter Lovesey,
and Reginald Hill.
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ISBN
9781504003483
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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