A01=P. M. Hubbard
Author_P. M. Hubbard
Category=FF
crime fiction
English countryside
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family drama
horror
murder
mystery
remote village
suspense
The Murder Room
thriller
Product details
- ISBN 9781471900839
- Weight: 41g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2013
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ian MacKellar seeks out Julia. He discovers her on a farm she runs, where she maintains her younger brother and sister. But his obsessive pursuit of Julia becomes stymied by members of her dysfunctional family.
The action unfolds in a West Country English village by a dark pond in the secluded woods near Julia's family home. And it is below the surface of that pond that tragedy awaits ...
Praised by critics for his clean prose style, characterization, and the strong sense of place in his novels, Philip Maitland Hubbard was born in Reading, in Berkshire and brought up in Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. He was educated at Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for English verse in 1933. From 1934 until its disbandment in 1947 he served with the Indian Civil Service. On his return to England he worked for the British Council, eventually retiring to work as a freelance writer. He contributed to a number of publications, including Punch, and wrote 16 novels for adults as well as two children's books. He lived in Dorset and Scotland, and many of his novels draw on his interest in and knowledge of rural pursuits and folk religion.
