num_pages: 326
description: An explosion and fire at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill in Kent has killed over a hundred men. Its called an appalling tragedyuntil suspicion and rumor raise the specter of murder. While visiting the Ashton family Bess Crawford finds herself caught up in a venomous show of hostility that doesnt stop with Philip Ashtons arrest. Indeed someone is out for blood and the household is all but under siege. The only known witness to the tragedy is now at the Front in France. Bess is asked to find him. When she does he refuses to tell her anything that will help the Ashtons. Realizing that he believes the tissue of lies that has nearly destroyed a family Bess must convince him to tell her what really happened that terrible Sunday morning. But now someone else is also searching for this man. To end the vicious persecution of the Ashtons Bess must risk her own life to protect her reluctant witness from a clever killer intent on preventing either of them from ever reaching England.
language: English
title: A Pattern of Lies
publisher: William Morrow