Afterlife Allan Mallinson disguises himself as a Gold

disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their society

And then all hell breaks loose when murder returns to Champton in the form of a shocking ritualistic killing

the villagers know that to escape the cruel and unusual tortures planned for them

The Private Patient is the fourteenth novel to feature the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh

of his two best friends: Frank Slattery

Afterlife Allan Mallinson disguises himself as a GoldThe seventies. Summer. Four students in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Two young American women, one hell bent on destruction. Alcohol, LSD, sex, jealousy, infidelity and poetry. At the end of the summer, one of the four students will be dead, and another will be destroyed by his inability to let go of past memories, guilt and bitterness.