Painting the Darkness

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home.    When the creak of the garden gate heralds the arrival of an unexpected stranger, he is puzzled but not alarmed.    He cannot know the destruction this man will wreak on all he holds most dear... The stranger announces himself as James Norton, but claims he is in reality Sir James Davenall, the man to whom Trenchard's wife Constance had been engaged, and who had committed suicide eleven years ago.    Sir Hugo, James's younger brother, and his mother, Lady Catherine, refuse to recognise Norton and force Trenchard--who fears the loss of his wife's affections--into an uneasy alliance against him.    But Trenchard must plumb the depths of his own despair before the dark secrets of the Davenall family can finally, shockingly, be revealed...

ISBN 0552132829   Pages 608 ISBN13 9780552132824 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 290 Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd   Published in London Imprint Corgi Books   Height (mm) 177 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 109 Publication date 25 May 1990   Spine width (mm) 32 Library of Congress PR   Academic level General DEWEY 823.914   Alternative ISBN 9780754054047 DEWEY edition DC21

"I was hooked by this atmospheric historical mystery"-Sarah Broadhurst, "Today" "It has all the ingredients of a first-class melodrama...engaging and satisfying"-"The Times" "It explodes into action so that the reader is hooked by the time he reaches the third page...he is a superb storyteller"-"Sunday Independent"

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