Family fallout
By: Peter Conway
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781444812817
Subjects: Murder; Middle class families; Investigation; Fiction
Description: Alex, the sixteen-year-old adopted daughter of Tory MP Richard Travers, is found drowned with a head injury in a pond, in the garden of her family home in Oxfordshire. With the local police force short-handed, two detectives from Scotland Yard investigate what is - they soon discover - a seriously dysfunctional family. Alex had been difficult to manage and Madeleine, the MP's wife, had religious beliefs that convinced her and her eighteen-year-old son, Matthew, that Alex was evil. Only Alex's widowed maternal grandmother could handle her, which then leads to further strife within the family - until the final shocking truth is revealed.
Notes: Originally published: London: Robert Hale, 2011.