Can the truly rich get away with murder or is there always a price?Two days in May bring Colin Pinnocks career to a peak. His party wins astunning election vict... » 

Can the truly rich get away with murder or is there always a price?Two days in May bring Colin Pinnocks career to a peak. His party wins astunning election victory and he wins a new government office. What a pity thatamong the congratulations pouring in lurks one grubby card asking Who do youthink you are? Is this someone trying to put him down a peg or is it someoneholding damaging information? Come to think of it could it just be thatColins parents are not what they appear? As he probes hes led back in timeto an old political scandal and a murder case ushering a politician out ofoffice and out of sight ever after. Soon events in the present start tanglingwith those of the past and Colin finds himself facing something worse than thetoppling of his career his life is in danger.Barnard mixes fact with surmise over an actual 1980s murder case. No one doesthis kind of story better than the crafty master of mayhem winner of the NeroWolfe and Golden Handcuff Awards as witnessed in the brilliant A Scandal inBelgravia 14.95. «