Lord Brocktree Jonathan Cape Du Maurier's REBECCA meets WE

Du Maurier's REBECCA meets WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and GONE GIRL in this intimate tale of a terrible crime

One chapter contains the interior monologue of an old man prone to heart attacks

with Mason still feverishly writing

This is only the start of a series of revelations that span three generations of a distinguished aristocratic family who are not what they seem

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead

Lord Brocktree Jonathan Cape Du Maurier's REBECCA meets WESalamandastron, ancestral home of the Badger Lords is under threat from an enemy whose power is absolute and whose evil knows no bounds. Ungatt Trunn can make the stars fall from the sky, the very earth shake underfoot, and with a horde of vermin as numerous as the leaves in autumn, the wildcat appears unstoppable. The mountain's defences are weak. Who can save it now? Salamandastron's only hope is a badger, Lord Brocktree who is drawn to the fortress