Fox evil (Heftet (myke permer))

Minette Walters is England's bestselling female crime writer. She has won the CWA John Creasey Award for best first crime novel, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel published in America and two CWA Gold Daggers for fiction. Minette writes full-time and lives in Dorset with her husband.

Når den eldre Alisa Lockyer-Fox blir funnet død i hagen sin, faller mistanken på hennes rike ektemann, James Lockyer-Fox. Rettsmedisineren sier at Alisa døde av "naturlige årsaker", men mistankene og sladderet rundt James forsvinner ikke. James oppførsel begynner å bekymre advokaten hans, særlig når han får høre at James blir beskyldt for ting som er mye verre enn mord. Advokaten kan ikke forstå hvorfor James ikke vil svare på anklagene, kan det være fordi de er motiv for mord? © DnBB AS

When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in night clothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding him refuses to go away. Why? Because he's guilty? Or because resentful women in the isolated Dorset village where he lives rule the roost? Shenstead is a place of too few people and too many secrets. Why have James and Ailsa cut their children out of their wills? What happened in the past to create such animosity within the family? And why is James so desperate to find his illegitimate grandchild? Friendless and alone, his reclusive behaviour begins to alarm his London-based solicitor, Mark Ankerton, whose concern deepens when he discovers that James has become the victim of a relentless campaign which accuses him of far worse than the death of his wife. Allegations which he refuses to challenge ...Why? Because they're a motive for murder?