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    Our Fathers' Lies: William Dougal Crime Series Book 3

    Andrew Taylor

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    There's unfinished business between William Dougal and his widowed father. Part of it has to do with Celia Prentisse, who was once William's girlfriend. When her father, a historian, is found drowned, he is declared a suicide, but Celia remains unconvinced - not least because his abandoned clothes were found with a bottle of the wrong brand of gin and a slim volume of Schopenhauer's essays. It's not much evidence, but it's enough to send her godfather, retired British intelligence officer Major Ted Dougal, and his son William off on a trail that leads to a 1930s arsenic poisoning and a still-classified World War I court martial. Fortunately, the Major still has connections - and William's scruples are infinitely adjustable . . .

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    Praise for Our Fathers' Lies

    • Lively and entertaining - Times Literary Supplement

    • An amusing romp - Sunday Telegraph

    • This one's a maverick . . . [with] a professional touch unusual in a first novel - Irish Times

    • A rather unusual book . . . with sharply etched characters and a rather shocking amorality - The New York Times Book Review

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    Andrew Taylor

    Andrew Taylor

    Andrew Taylor has worked as a boatbuilder, wages clerk, librarian, labourer and publisher's reader. He has written many crime novels as well as children's books and lives with his wife and their two children in the Forest of Dean, on the borders of England and Wales.

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