{"product_id":"rough-cider","title":"Rough Cider","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe standalone novel from the critically-acclaimed Peter Lovesey. \u003ci\u003eRough Cider\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for an Edgar Award.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYears 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlice 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32037317869651,"sku":"","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780751553550.jpg?v=1744790442","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/rough-cider","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}