The Lover of the Grave: A Lydmouth Mystery by Andrew Taylor (First Edition)

A disturbing death unsettles a respectable community

Good Condition - Jacket is scuffed and creased with small chips around the edges. Page edges are tanned and lightly spotted, otherwise pages are clean.

After a bitterly cold night, a man's body is found hanging from a tree outside a village near Lydmouth. The circumstances make it difficult to decide whether his death was deliberate, accidental or the work of someone else. Detective Inspector Thornhill investigates, while journalist Jill Francis becomes entangled through a separate route and is drawn unwillingly into the affairs of the school where the dead man taught. Behind conventional appearances lie private tensions that complicate the search for an explanation. In the third Lydmouth mystery, Andrew Taylor combines a troubling death with a portrait of a postwar community whose rules constrain what people can admit, allowing an investigation to expose secrets hidden beneath respectability.