Before the Poison: a totally gripping crime fiction novel from the master of the police procedural
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Through years of success in Hollywood composing music for Oscar-winning films, Chris Lowndes always imagined he would come full circle, home to Yorkshire with his beloved wife Laura.
Now he's back in the Yorkshire Dales, but Laura is dead, and Chris needs to make a new life for himself. The isolated house he buys sight unseen should give him the space to come to terms with his grief and the quiet to allow him to work.
Kilnsgate House turns out to be rather more than he expected, however. A man died there, sixty years ago. His wife was convicted of murder. And something is pulling Chris deeper and deeper into the story of Grace Elizabeth Fox, who was hanged by the neck until she was dead . . .
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Praise for Before the Poison
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On Friend of the Devil: Robinson writes world class detective stories. - The Australian Women's Weekly
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On All The Colours of Darkness: Peter Robinson is a prolific author of police procedurals that have proved engaging and enduringly popular...churning out crime fiction as solid and unshowy as it is well constructed. - The Age
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'Riveting' - The Times
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Robinson writes with gusto . . . his tale cracks along at a satisfying lick, with splashes of dark humour along the way. - Metro
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'A master class in the organisation of narrative.' - Independent
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