Instruments of Darkness

Daphne du Maurier meets CSI in this exhilarating debutThornleigh Hall, seat of the Earl of Sussex, dominates its surroundings. Its heir is missing, and the once vigorous family is reduced to a cripple, his whore and his alcoholic second son, but its power endures. Impulsive Harriet Westerman has felt the Hall s menace long before she happens upon a dead man bearing the Thornleigh arms. The grim di...