Now, guided by the Fire Court, the city is rebuilding, but times are volatile and danger is only ever a heartbeat away. He lives with his wife Caroline in the Forest of Dean. From number one best-selling author Andrew Taylor comes the sequel to the phenomenally successful The Ashes of London A time of terrible danger. He also writes for the Spectator and The Times. He has won many awards, including the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger, an Edgar Scroll from the Mystery Writers of America, the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award (the only author to win it three times) and the CWA's prestigious Diamond Dagger, awarded for sustained excellence in crime writing. Biography: Andrew Taylor is the author of a number of crime novels, including the ground-breaking Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed TV drama Fallen Angel, and the historical crime novels The Ashes of London, The Silent Boy, The Scent of Death and The American Boy, a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and a 2005 Richard & Judy Book Club Choice.And the Spring floods are rising higher than they have in living memory, drowning a multitude of secrets. His wife Edith and former lover Jill Francis join forces in an uneasy alliance to try to help him.īut there are many complications – scandalous allegations have been made about Miss Awre’s School of Dancing the Ruispidge Charity’s annual dance for young people is under threat teenagers haunt the newly opened Italian coffee bar and yearn for fumbled intimacies in the sheltering darkness of the Rex Cinema. Is he himself a killer? Now, when a retired police officer is found dead in the ruins of Lydmouth Castle, the past has come back to claim Detective Inspector Thornhill, and he is under suspicion of another murder.
‘Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller’ Daily Telegraphįrom the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the final instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesĪs a young police officer in Palestine during the closing months of the Mandate – the cradle of Middle Eastern terrorism – Richard Thornhill saw and did things which still haunt his dreams and make him fear for his sanity.
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