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Title details for Before the Poison by Peter Robinson - Available

Before the Poison

by Peter Robinson
Susan Lyons
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From the New York Times best-selling author of the Inspector Banks series comes this haunting standalone tale. In Before the Poison, Hollywood composer Chris Lowe mourns the death of his wife by returning home to his native Yorkshire, where he buys the desolate Kilnsgate House. Soon Chris discovers Kilnsgate's past—a man murdered 60 years ago, his wife convicted of the crime—and becomes convinced that the woman was innocent. As Chris' investigation deepens, it becomes increasingly entwined with his own search for closure.

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  • Release date

    February 7, 2012

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781464006548
      • File size: 400807 KB
      • Duration: 13:55:00

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 2, 2012
      At the outset of this haunting stand-alone from Arthur Ellis Award–winner Robinson (No Cure for Love), British film composer Chris Lowndes, a recent widower, leaves California after more than 30 years for the peace and quiet of the Yorkshire countryside. He buys isolated Kilnsgate House, which the estate agent neglects to mention was the site of a sensational crime. Intercut are passages from a fictional true crime book, Famous Trials, depicting the 1953 case against Grace Fox, who was convicted of poisoning her husband, Dr. Ernest Fox, at Kilnsgate, and hanged. While Chris’s initial interest is simple curiosity, the more he learns about Grace, the more his interest veers toward obsession. In piecing together the murder case and Grace’s extraordinary life as a nurse during WWII, Chris discovers as much about himself as he does about her. Robinson manages a melancholy tone without veering into the maudlin, and the presence of Grace Fox permeates every page. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary Agency.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This stand-alone is every bit as compelling as Robinson's Inspector Banks series. Chris Lowndes, who has been working in LA as a film composer, returns to Yorkshire after his beloved wife's death. Narrators Toby Moore and Susan Lyons are both vital to this presentation, which moves back and forth in time and point of view. Chris has bought a large, old house that once belonged to a doctor whose wife, Grace, was convicted of murdering him in 1952 and was hanged. Amid the bleak Yorkshire dales, Chris feels Grace's presence and attempts to prove her innocence. Moore splendidly renders the modern Chris and those he interviews tirelessly about Grace. Lyons movingly captures Grace through her heartbreaking WWII diaries, written in the Far East. The listener becomes as caught up with Grace's story as Chris does. S.G.B. (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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