Before the Poison

Bestselling author Peter Robinson turns his hand to an atmospheric and suspenseful standalone novel. As a successful Hollywood film composer, Chris promised his wife they would one day return to the Yorkshire Dales. After his wife's death, Chris doesn't forget his promise and so he decides to rent an isolated house in the Dales in order to grieve. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s, and that the convicted murderer was one of the last women hanged in England, he finds himself increasingly distracted by the events of sixty years before.