Used book – The Abberley Chronicle, Robert Goddard

Beatrix Abberley is murdered in the dead of night in her seaside cottage. Strangely, she seemed to be expecting it; she even seemed to know who was going to kill her. For Charlotte Ladram – her niece by marriage, who inherits the estate – the shock is terrible. Very quickly, a man is accused. Perhaps too quickly. For a thick mystery hangs over Tristram Abberley, the deceased's brother, a famous poet who died during the Spanish Civil War. What happened back then for shadows thought to be buried to resurface with such savagery? Charlotte tries to unravel the enigma. But the veil she is about to lift is much heavier than she thought: half a century of betrayals and lies, suddenly exhumed. Has the price of truth been paid? Soon, a second murder is committed...

A devilishly effective thriller. Femme actuelle.

Translated from the English by Claude and Jean Demanuelli.