| In this twenty-third installment of the Commander John Coffin series,Gwendoline Butler weaves a story of intrigue and deception with her usual finesse. John Coffin,unusually pleased with his mercurial wife, isfeeling quite content with married life. However,one day a phone call disrupts his peace of mindand starts him on a journey from past to present. Dr. John Bradshaw is a scholar who iswriting a book on the life of Richard Laven-dar, a former prime minister, long retired and almost forgotten. When he enlists Coffin s help to research his subiect, Coffin uncovers a deadly secret. On a visit to Lavendar, he hears the respected politician confess that his father was a serial killer, and that as a boy he had helped to bury one of the victims, laven- dar, on his deathbed, is repentant and requests that Coffin find the body. Unsure whether the story is true or the elderly man is delusional, Coffin sets off to investigate. When a young journalist who has been digging around in Lavendar s past is mur- dered, it appears that the sins of the past and present are coming together with terriflying speed. |
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