Ivor Tesham, ein Machtmensch, Draufgänger und Politiker, macht seiner anderweitig verheirateten Geliebten zum achtundzwanzigsten Geburtstag ein riskantes Überraschungsgeschenk. Ein Geschenk, das seine Karriere und sein Leben zu zerstören droht.
Ivor Tesham, ein Machtmensch, Draufgänger und Politiker, macht seiner anderweitig verheirateten Geliebten zum achtundzwanzigsten Geburtstag ein riska...
"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love." --New York Times Book Review "When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level." --TIME Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable woman, was convicted and hanged for the crime, but the reason for her desperate deed died with her. Thirty years later, a probing...
"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need f...