London: Harper Collins, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel by the writer best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe series.
A young mathematics grad student from Australia arrives in the tiny Cumbrian village of Illthwaite, in search of information about her grandmother, an orphan who was sent to Australia. There she meets Miguel Mercado. a historian and former Jesuit seminarian who is researching the presence of Catholic priests during the years of Queen Elizabeth four centuries earlier. SIGNED on the title page. 470 pp. ISBN: 0-007194811.