Bøger af Lucy Dunmore

When Alice finds her brother, Guy, guarding a corpse on family land in the early summer of 1947, she suspects the worst. Her father, who was the last person to have seen the deceased alive, refuses to talk about it to the police. As the investigation proceeds an evil network is revealed and persons of high status implicated. Alice and her lover Jeremy seek to clear her father's name by finding the killer - a task that becomes more difficult with every step they take.

In the spring of 1947 Alice Chamberlain, 27-year-old daughter of Roger Chamberlain, (Lord Weathersley), returns from France, to London. Her old boss, Colonel Legge (aka 'Leggy') now semiretired, asks her to research a mysterious painting of an angel that he has recently acquired. She agrees, and after some basic detective work she discovers that it is one of a group of seven paintings that are also coveted by a group of black occultists. Whoever captures the seven angels will have access to enormous power. To reunite the Angels, Alice has to use all her ingenuity and courage, entering the worlds of high society and occultism, and facing every new situation with common sense and bravery.