Black Moth: Barbara Vine

Outstanding writer Gerald Kandless is dying of a heart attack. His loving daughter Sarah throws his studies at college and, yielding to the numerous requests of publishers, sits down to write a biography of his famous father. But in the course of work, Sarah discovers more and more strange circumstances of Gerald’s life. And soon it turns out that her adored father was not the one for whom he betrayed himself. He is not even Gerald Kandless. But who is he? And what kind of terrible mystery made him lie down all these years? The past of Sarah begins to crack at the seams and break into flaps. Finally, the investigation leads the girl to a forgotten tragedy – the murder that happened in London many years ago …

Author
Vine Barbara
Translator
Sums Lyubov Borisovna
Publisher
Eksmo, 2013
Series
Millennium. English detective
Genre
Modern foreign prose