Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove (USA 2006)

From the Publisher:
In her seaside cottage, Beatrix Abberley bravely confronts an intruder moments before her life is brutally taken. The crime stuns the elderly spinster’s family -- especially Beatrix’s niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn the loss of her beloved aunt and little patience when police quickly arrest a man Charlotte believes is innocent. For Charlotte, a harrowing quest for answers begins -- one that will take her into the shadows of the past... and into the life and secrets of the dead woman’s brother, famed poet and casualty of the Spanish Civil War, Tristram Abberley.

Now, amid shattering revelations about her family, and in the aftermath of a second savage crime, Charlotte finds herself at the center of a widening storm. And for Charlotte, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. As fifty years of secrets begin to unravel, shy, cautious Charlotte is coming alive in the shadow of a mystery -- uncovering a shocking tale of wartime greed and treachery, and a vendetta of violence seemingly without end...

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove. Delta Publishing, ISBN: 0385339216 (April, 2006), 464 p., $12.00.

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove (UK 1993)

From the Publisher:
Tristram Abberley was an English poet of the 1930s whose reputation was sealed when he died fighting for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Nearly fifty years later his sister Beatrix is murdered during what appears to be a robbery at her home, but robbery - it transpires - is only part of the motive that underlies her death. Beatrix is the victim of a dark conspiracy, one that her loved ones are powerless to defeat.

But nothing is quite as it seems in a Robert Goddard novel. In a narrative that moves between Cheltenham and New York, Paris and rural Wales, Tunbridge Wells and wartime Spain, the conspirators themselves are caught up in a chain of dramatic events that are the consequences of meddling in the dark secrets of the legendary poet.

Hand in Glove is as full of devious and unexpected twists and as compelling as anything Robert Goddard has written.

Robert Goddard: Hand in Glove. Corgi Books, ISBN: 0552138398 (July, 1993), 526 p., £4.99 / £6.99.