Robert Barnard
Author
Series
Charlie Peace mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Robert Barnard, the internationally acclaimed Diamond Dagger-winning crime writer, dissects family bonds at their best and worst in this stunning novel of suspense. What an honor--to become trustee of an English stately home museum. Yorkshire Detective Inspector Charlie Peace's wife, Felicity, is initially thrilled when she's asked to join the board that oversees Walbrook Manor, an eighteenth-century mansion that's now part of a charitable trust....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An exquisitely written mystery about a man who discovers he had been abducted as a baby. The young man who has known himself only as Kit sets out to rediscover his past, the story of two three-year-old boys torn from their mothers in very different circumstances. Kit's probing inquiries bring surprises--and also unearth dangerous secrets.
Author
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem
Pub. Date
2006, c1984
Language
English
Description
A small boy, evacuated from London during the blitz, is taken in by a loving couple who treat him like their own, and who raise him to adulthood. When he returns to London as a man, he feels the need to find his original family. He uncovers a thoroughly detestable family that he knows he was part of, but he has to find out where exactly he fit in. He uncovers an old murder that he actually witnessed as a small boy.