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Simon Tolkien
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It’s 1960, and David Swan
is two years into his life sentence for
murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend,
Katya Osman. In the dead of night, David
escapes from prison, and that same night
Katya is found murdered in her uncle’s home,
Blackwater Hall.
Inspector Trave of the Oxford Police, last
seen in The Inheritance, heads the manhunt
for David, whom he first brought to justice
two years earlier. But Trave’s suspicions
lead him to Katya’s uncle Titus Osman, a
rich diamond dealer, and his sinister
brother-in-law, Franz Claes, who has gone to
great lengths to hide his former ties with
the Nazis. However, Trave’s motives are
suspect – Osman is having an affair with
Trave’s estranged...
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A complex mystery of
deception and betrayal that follows the
court case of a young man set to hang for
the murder of his father
When a famed Oxford historian is found dead
in his study one night, all evidence points
to his son, Stephen. About to be
disinherited from the family fortune,
Stephen returns to home after a long
estrangement—and it happens to be the night
his father is shot to death. When his
fingerprints are found on the murder weapon,
Stephen’s guilt seems undeniable. But there
were five other people in the manor house at
the time, and as their stories slowly
emerge—along with the revelation that the
deceased man was involved in a deadly hunt
for a priceless relic in Northern France at
the end of World War II—the race is on to
save Stephen from a death...
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