- Fiction, Police, Barbara Havers (Fictitious character), Thomas Lynley (Fictitious character)
Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead--a victim of accidental poisoning.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Elizabeth George
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 567
- Publisher
- Goldmann, Random House Publishing Group, New York
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780553905298
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