The crime scene showed that acunning mind and a passionate hatred lay behindthe killing of Lisa Stillwell. But New Scotland Yardwould not have been called to this remoteHampshire village if the baby-sitter's employer hadn'tbeen Gale Grayson, a self-exiled American with asuspicious past. Three years before, Chief InspectorDaniel Halford had watched helplessly as Gale'shusband put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger-- seconds before Halford could arrest him forterrorism. Halford has never forgotten the scene orthe pregnant young widow whose life was shattered-- and as he questions her now, he finds past andpresent emotions blurring his judgment. Yet pieceby piece he is discovering some unsettling truthsabout the life of Lisa Stillwell... and a chillingpicture is forming of a village that is not quiteas sleepy as it seems.From the Paperback edition.