Taylor, Andrew. A STAIN ON THE SILENCE - Michael Joseph 2006

The book is a first edition, first printing as evidenced by a number 1 on the copyright page.

The book has black boards and metalic lettering. The boards have no knocks or signs of wear. Internally there are no marks or inscriptions. The pages are clean and white, have no tears or creases, and the binding is tight and square.

The very good wrapper is complete showing the original cover price of £12.99. it has a small closed tear to the back (1 cm).

Overall a fine copy of a novel by a popular author.

The book is not an ex library book, it has no remainder marks or publishers stamps.

Andrew Taylor writes his chilling crime novels in a converted outbuilding near the cosy, straggling Victorian cottage that he shares with his wife and two children. He lives in a small town in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. ‘I’ve lived in the Forest longer than I’ve lived anywhere else,’ says Andrew, ‘and I love it. I think that if we’d stayed in London, or any other big city, our social lives and our work lives would revolve solely around literature and publishing. But here we’ve got friends from all walks of life.’ A self-confessed writing and word ‘addict’, he is the author of ‘twenty plus books, at a conservative estimate’ and the recipient of two Ellis Peters Historical Daggers (for The Office of the Dead and The American Boy) and a John Creasey Memorial Award for his début novel Caroline Minuscule). ‘My children make jokes about my unhealthy relationship with the Oxford English Dictionary. One of the pleasures of writing The American Boy was the need to check words and phrases to see if they could reasonably be used, and in the sense I wanted, in 1819–20.’

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You can run from a guilty conscience, but you can't hide...James wasn't much more than a child when he had an affair with Lily. And now, twenty-four years later, Lily confesses to James that their affair led to a daughter, Kate. And Kate desperately needs her father's help: she's wanted for murder. But there is no room for murder in James' life. He has a wife, a good job, a nice house in the country...As Kate comes crashing into his world, so she lights the fuse under his ordered life. Because James has also been keeping a secret - a very dark and deadly one...

--Daily Telegraph

The most interesting novelist writing on crime in England today"

--Spectator

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