From the Back Cover
Why should distinguished Edwardian Cabinet minister Edwin Strafford resign at the height of his parliamentary career? Why does the woman he loves so suddenly and coldly reject him? Why, seventy years later, should people go to such lengths - even as far as murder - to prevent the truth from being revealed?
Martin Radford, history graduate, disaffected and unemployed, leaps at the chance to get to the island of Madeira and begin the hunt for a solution to the intriguing secret of Edwin Strafford's fall from grace. However, his seeming good fortune turns to nightmare as his investigation triggers a bizarre and violent train of events which remorselessly entangles him and those who believed they had escaped the spectre of crimes long past but never paid for...

It is a a very long time since I read this, but I do remember it as being an excellent combination of historical politics and a modern investigation. Goddard's first novel drew me in. His historical fiction is infinitely better than that which he sets in the modern day.

RELEASE NOTES:

One for the big pile in the middle of the table, surrounded by coffee cups and book-lovers.

RELEASE NOTES:

This one didn't make it to Ipswich so it's off to Cambridge, instead.