One Night in Winter

His prose bristles with vivid imagery ... All human life - and death - is here. , Financial Times. The case, still some months short of coming to trial, had seized the imagination of the country. Wasn t it said that members of the peerage, county types, policemen, M.P.s, advocates, who knew who else, had attended that man s & parties? Now he was dead, who knew what might come out? Dallas Graham, middle-aged and world-weary, looks back from present-day London to the strange events that led up to the murder of Fraser Donnelly in north-east Scotland twenty years before. Through his memory characters and events are restructured to reveal a dark trail of human passion and ambition which continues to shadow his life. One Night in Winter - an investigation into a murder; a psychological study of men and women caught up in their own fantasies; a penetrating novel of contemporary Scotland.


Genre: Literary Fiction