- Fox Evil
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name = Fox Evil
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author =Minette Walters
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country =United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Crime /Mystery novel
publisher =Pan Books
release_date = November 8 2002
media_type = Print (Hardcover ,Paperback ) &Audio CD
pages = 384 pp (hardback)
isbn = ISBN 1405001097
preceded_by =Acid Row
followed_by =Disordered Minds "Fox Evil" is a novel by British crime-writer
Minette Walters . It won theCrime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in 2003, making her one of the few writers to win the award more than once.Plot summary
When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A Coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding James refuses to go away.
Why? Because he's guilty? Or because resentful women in the isolated Dorset village where he lives rule the roost? Shenstead is a place of too few people and too many secrets. Why have James and Ailsa cut their children out of their wills? What happened in the past to create such animosity within the family? And why is James so desperate to find the illegitimate child - his only grandchild - who was put up for adoption when she was born?
Friendless and alone, his reclusive behaviour begins to alarm his London-based solicitor, Mark Ankerton, whose concern deepens when he discovers that James has become the victim of a relentless campaign which accuses him of far worse than the death of his wife. Allegations which he refuses to challenge.
External links
* [http://www.minettewalters.co.uk/books/fox_evil.htm More about "Fox Evil" on Walters' website]
* [http://www.gregoryandcompany.co.uk/pages/authors/titles.asp?AuthorID=39&TitleID=227 Agent's dedicated page]
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