A compelling novel of obsession and mysteries of the past from Edgar Award-winning author Barbara Vine
After his unexpected death, celebrated author Gerald Candless's daughter Sarah sets out to write her father's biography. She is determined to learn about the man that was always present in her life, and yet was always a mystery to her.
As Sarah begins her research, she quickly discovers a darker side of her father which begins to explain not only her father's seemingly unending need to reinvent himself through his work, but her mother's strange behavior toward her father as well. And as she continues to dig, shocking details come to life that may help to explain a long-forgotten murder.
