Roger Teichmann
In Oxford, a bestselling author revisits an old secret . . .Why is bestselling author Tessa Wainwright visiting Oxford again after so many years abroad? Even Vince, her agent and factotum, is in the dark but Conrad Merrivale, a student doing vacation work at the hotel she’s staying at, unearths the reason.Conrad, with his taste for hard drugs and Richard Wagner, decides to blackmail Tessa, setting in train a cat and mouse between him and Vince which eventually spirals into violence and death.'An evocative descent into a world of blackmail, betrayal and murder.' -Guy Burt, author of After the Hole
