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‘An intelligent, exciting psychological drama… A powerful feeling of something nasty just around the corner prevails’
Daily Mail
‘This author knows precisely how to wield suspense’
Independent
‘Taylor is a major thriller talent’
Time Out
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‘Complex, with lots of sinister implications… moves the traditional crime novel on to some deeper level of exploration’ Jane Jakeman, Independent
It is 1970. David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a darker future, brings home a new wife to Roth. Throughout the summer, the consequences of the marriage reverberate through a village now submerged in a sprawling London suburb.
Blinded by lust, Byfield is oblivious to the dangers that lie all about him: the menopausal churchwarden with a hopeless passion for her priest; his beautiful, neglected teenage daughter Rosemary; and the sinister presence of Frances Youlgreave – poet, opium addict and suicide – whose power stretches beyond the grave.
Soon the murders and blasphemies begin. But does the responsibility lie in the present or the past? And can Byfield, a prisoner of his own passion, break through to the truth before the final tragedy destroys what he most cherishes?
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read all 3 books in the Roth Trilogy and very much enjoyed them all but this one is my favourite. It's set in the small village of Roth in Middlesex in the 1970's where David Byfield is a widowed parish priest. The course of the book sees his meeting and subsequent marriage to Vanessa, a marriage that seems to be the catalyst to a train of unsavoury events with a darker undertone, the true magnitude of which, only becomes clear at the very end. The story is well laid out and easy to follow with each character well established, not least the every present Miss Oliphant. I don't want to give too much away but the way it links to the other books in the Trilogy is excellent.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
These books one volume constitute a masterpiece, unparalled.
Andrew Taylor really is the best crime writer alive, in my opinion. I like all his books.
But this really is something special.
The first book is somewhat gruesome and with hindsight I realise I have viewed it as a spring-board to the other two. I love the way that each volume is written in a different style/genre and I loved the complexity of the final volume.
I cannot recommend this trilogy too highly - I wish I could have the experience again of reading it for the first time!
Andrew Taylor really is the best crime writer alive, in my opinion. I like all his books.
But this really is something special.
The first book is somewhat gruesome and with hindsight I realise I have viewed it as a spring-board to the other two. I love the way that each volume is written in a different style/genre and I loved the complexity of the final volume.
I cannot recommend this trilogy too highly - I wish I could have the experience again of reading it for the first time!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the last book in the Roth trilogy - the earliest book chronologically - and I really recommend reading them in the order intended. Andrew Taylor is a master of understatement, of the horror lurking just under the deceptively normal surface. These books have staid with me for a long time and I look forward to re-reading them.
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The Judgement of Strangers
Very poor follow on to Trilogy 1.
Always hoping the storey would get better - it never did.
Regards, MDC.
Always hoping the storey would get better - it never did.
Regards, MDC.
Published 19 months ago by The Fox
The Jury is still out !!!!!!!
As I went through this book I thought I would award it no more than three stars. Described as a thriller and yet I was not thrilled. Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2002
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