A prize-winning, spine-tingling gothic suspense novel based on a real-life murder trial in 1897 West Virginia
''A novel that demands you turn the pages'' THE TIMES, BEST HISTORICAL FICTION
''A gothic mystery pulsing with suspense'' MAIL ON SUNDAY
''Brilliant'' IRISH TIMES
''I was tenterhooked from the very first to the very last page''JO BROWNING WROE, author of A Terrible Kindness
''Compelling'' ANNE ENRIGHT
''Truly superb'' VICTORIA MACKENZIE, author of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
West Virginia, 1897. When young Zona Heaster Shue dies only a few months after her wedding, her mother Mary Jane becomes convinced that Zona was murdered - and by none other than her husband, Trout, the handsome blacksmith beloved in their small Southern town.
But when Trout is put on trial, no one believes he could have don
