Dunkle Spiegel

out to discover the truth behind his great-uncle's murder. Committed during the days of rationing and privation following the Second World War., that murder provided the foundation of the Napier family's subsequent prosperity, but Christian is led to question the verdict reached in the case by the more recent suicide of an old and abandoned friend. The whole of the action is relayed through Napier's eyes and voice as he struggles to sort out his understanding of what happened before he was born, his own memories as a child, the alcohol-hazed intervening years, and the current arm's-length relationship he maintains with the surviving members of his family. Als der Mord an Joshua Carnoweth das Stadtchen Truro im englischen Cornwall erschuttert, ist der Tater schnell gefunden: Michael Lanyon, der Haupterbe, hat aus Habgier gemordet - und wird nach kurzem Proze gehangt. Doch Jahre spater wirft eine Verzweiflungstat lange vergessen geglaubte Fragen neu auf. Der Schatten des Mordes holt vollkommen uberraschend eine angesehene Familie ein, und das Idyll zerbricht ...