Rough Cider Author:Peter Lovesey During the waning years of World War II, the discovery of a human skull in a cider barrel led to the arrest and murder conviction of Duke Donovan, a U. S. serviceman stationed in Somerset. The principal witness for the prosecution had been nine-year-old Theo Sinclair, recently evacuated from London. — Twenty years later, university lecturer... more » Dr. Theo Sinclair's pleasant routine is disrupted by Alice, a beautiful and persuasive young American -- Duke Donovan's daughter.
Determined to find the truth about the events leading to her father's hanging, Alice convinces the reluctant Sinclair to revisit the Somerset cider farm and track down the persons involved in the murder case. But the horrors of the past take on a frightening immediacy when fresh murders are committed...« less