Published in 1997
From the Gollancz dust jacket:
A fracas in a hotel Gents results in a man's death. Mainly on the evidence of a local antiquarian bookseller, Simon Meagor, George Barker is convicted of manslaughter and sent to prison. On his release he kills himself.
Barker's daughter, Morwenna — the redhead — holds the bookseller responsible for her father's death and the subsequent breakup of her family. She conceives an obsessive hatred for him, but unexpectedly turns up at his shop one day looking for employment. Revenge or a form of therapy? Before Simon Meagor has a chance to find out, Morwenna disappears and Detective Superintendent Wycliffe becomes involved in a case which deeply disturbs his own peace of mind.
Here is a brand-new case — the twenty-first — for the Cornish detective, who has become Britain's favourite TV cop following the four series starring Jack Shepherd.
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