’Keeps us guessing - and guessing wrongly - to the very last page.’
--Liverpool Post
When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard’s funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard’s will, Cora was clearly heard to say: ’It’s been hushed up very nicely, hasn’t it ... But he was murdered, wasn’t he?’