{"product_id":"deaths-own-door","title":"Death's Own Door","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the No.1 bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ashes of London\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFire Court\u003c\/i\u003e, this is the sixth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the body of Rufus Moorcroft, a middle-aged widower with a distinguished war record, is found in his summerhouse, the verdict is suicide.  But both reporter Jill Francis and her lover, Detective Richard Thornhill, approaching the case from different angles, discover there's more to it than that.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe key to the mystery stretches back to a highly-charged summer before the war, and back to another death.  A local asylum plays a part, as do a moderately famous artist and his wife; Superintendent Williamson, now retired and loathing it; Councillor Bernie Broadbent - a man with more pies than fingers to put in them; a Cambridge don; an aristocratic unmarried mother, now gleefully drawing her old-age pension; and - to Thornhill's surprise and growing horror - his own wife, Edith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An \u003cb\u003eexcellent writer\u003c\/b\u003e. He plots with care and intelligence and the solution to the mystery is satisfyingly \u003cb\u003echilling\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The \u003cb\u003emost under-rated crime writer in Britain\u003c\/b\u003e today' \u003cb\u003eVal McDermid\u003c\/b\u003e         \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'There is \u003cb\u003eno denying Taylor's talent\u003c\/b\u003e, his prose exudes a quality uncommon among his contemporaries' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32078696742995,"sku":"","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780340696026_1b2f55fb-ad0c-4dee-a9de-f96bb5fe256f.jpg?v=1771334139","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/deaths-own-door","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}