Another excellent Robert Barnard mystery!
From back of book:
The most celebrated resident of her tiny Yorkshire village of Bly, old Lydia Perceval's hobby is the casual demolition of lives. Twenty years ago she used cakes, coercion and dreams to destroy her young nephews' love for their unsuspecting parents//with disastrous results. and now two more children have stumbled into Lydia's web--impressionable youths at an ideal age to be cruelly ripped from the bosom of their family. Ecstatic over the disruptive possibilites, Lydia couldn't care less about the havoc she is preparing to wreak once more--or about her ever-increasing army of enemies, any one of whom would gladly and gleefully watch her die.
The most celebrated resident of her tiny Yorkshire village of Bly, old Lydia Perceval's hobby is the casual demolition of lives. Twenty years ago she used cakes, coercion and dreams to destroy her young nephews' love for their unsuspecting parents//with disastrous results. and now two more children have stumbled into Lydia's web--impressionable youths at an ideal age to be cruelly ripped from the bosom of their family. Ecstatic over the disruptive possibilites, Lydia couldn't care less about the havoc she is preparing to wreak once more--or about her ever-increasing army of enemies, any one of whom would gladly and gleefully watch her die.
