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Intrigued by an invitation from a man named Oxley, Annabel and Robin venture out to Wales to a beautiful but suspicious island castle.
On the way they meet Derek Bruce and when they arrive, six others: the gorgeous Peter Garside, his cousin Fiona Trayle and her fiancée, Doctor Adola and a married couple named Farrington. There’s also the Doolan family who live and work at the castle.
Then Oxley informs them that some of them have harmed him in the past and he intends to exact retribution - but only on some of them.
They decide he must be mad, for none can remember having met him before.
Then all links with the mainland are cut, a guest is assaulted, and another disappears.
And Oxley too goes missing.
The guests are left to discuss amongst themselves who could possibly have harmed Oxley in the past and who is up for punishment and who is behind the disappearances and murders.
They start turning on each other, questioning every move and motivation…
They reach out to the mainland to the police and Inspector Hannassy makes his way over to the island to investigate.
Secrets come out and the murder investigation develops…
But the violence continues, culminating in murder.
Is there another madman on the island?
Who is lying when they say they don’t know why they’re there?
And how long will it be before the murderer is caught…?
'A perfectly plotted story that is both chilling and memorable.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of The Lunar Code
‘Like all Mr Straker's books, keeps the reader baffled with its unexpected twist and turns’ - The Daily Telegraph
‘Mr Straker is one of a comparatively small number of writers who produce what may be called 'the typical British detective story', strong in plot and character drawing and with a minimum of violence and brutality’ - Current Literature
‘J. F. Straker thinks up ingenious plots for his books and in the class of story which he writes (a mixture between the whodunit and the thriller) ingenuity of plot counts for a lot’ - Wolverhampton Express
'A gripping page-turner than kept me guessing to the last page.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Trade Off
J F Straker was born in Farnborough, Kent and lived in Sussex. During the war he served with The Buffs and on the General Staff and then became a schoolmaster. His interest in writing began at an early age but it was not until the war when he had to spend long periods in the desert with very little distraction that he completed his first novel. He was the author of twenty-five novels including Murder of Miss Emily and Death on a Sunday Morning.
Genre: Mystery
On the way they meet Derek Bruce and when they arrive, six others: the gorgeous Peter Garside, his cousin Fiona Trayle and her fiancée, Doctor Adola and a married couple named Farrington. There’s also the Doolan family who live and work at the castle.
Then Oxley informs them that some of them have harmed him in the past and he intends to exact retribution - but only on some of them.
They decide he must be mad, for none can remember having met him before.
Then all links with the mainland are cut, a guest is assaulted, and another disappears.
And Oxley too goes missing.
The guests are left to discuss amongst themselves who could possibly have harmed Oxley in the past and who is up for punishment and who is behind the disappearances and murders.
They start turning on each other, questioning every move and motivation…
They reach out to the mainland to the police and Inspector Hannassy makes his way over to the island to investigate.
Secrets come out and the murder investigation develops…
But the violence continues, culminating in murder.
Is there another madman on the island?
Who is lying when they say they don’t know why they’re there?
And how long will it be before the murderer is caught…?
Praise for J F Straker
'A perfectly plotted story that is both chilling and memorable.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of The Lunar Code
‘Like all Mr Straker's books, keeps the reader baffled with its unexpected twist and turns’ - The Daily Telegraph
‘Mr Straker is one of a comparatively small number of writers who produce what may be called 'the typical British detective story', strong in plot and character drawing and with a minimum of violence and brutality’ - Current Literature
‘J. F. Straker thinks up ingenious plots for his books and in the class of story which he writes (a mixture between the whodunit and the thriller) ingenuity of plot counts for a lot’ - Wolverhampton Express
'A gripping page-turner than kept me guessing to the last page.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Trade Off
J F Straker was born in Farnborough, Kent and lived in Sussex. During the war he served with The Buffs and on the General Staff and then became a schoolmaster. His interest in writing began at an early age but it was not until the war when he had to spend long periods in the desert with very little distraction that he completed his first novel. He was the author of twenty-five novels including Murder of Miss Emily and Death on a Sunday Morning.
Genre: Mystery
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