Rough cider
Lovesey, Peter, 1936-2014
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It is World War II and American soldiers stationed in rural England have made friends, especially with the local girls. After a dance to celebrate the pressing of the apples into cider, the resentment of the local men leads to violence and a murder. Later, a baby girl is born. Years later, Theo, a university lecturer, is approached by an American girl called Alice. She wants to be told about her father, a GI hanged for murder in Somerset during World War II. As a boy, Theo had been a principal witness for the prosecution. Alice persuades him to revisit the farm where Theo was evacuated, staunchly determined to discover the facts. The horrors of the past take on a frightening immediacy when long-forgotten jealousies come to the surface and another murder is committed.
Main title:
Rough cider / Peter Lovesey.
Author:
Lovesey, Peter, 1936-, author
Imprint:
London : Sphere, 2014.
Collation:
265 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Mysterious Press, 1986.Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 1986.
ISBN:
0751553557
Local class:
FICMF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1451952