A Far and Deadly Cry

The crime scene showed that anbsp;nbsp;cunning mind and a passionate hatred lay behindnbsp;nbsp;the killing of Lisa Stillwell. But New Scotland Yardnbsp;nbsp;would not have been called to this remotenbsp;nbsp;Hampshire village if the baby-sitter's employer hadn'tnbsp;nbsp;been Gale Grayson, a self-exiled American with anbsp;nbsp;suspicious past. Three years before, Chief Inspectornbsp;nbsp;Daniel Halford had watched helplessly as Gale'snbsp;nbsp;husband put a gun in his mouth and...
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The crime scene showed that anbsp;nbsp;cunning mind and a passionate hatred lay behindnbsp;nbsp;the killing of Lisa Stillwell. But New Scotland Yardnbsp;nbsp;would not have been called to this remotenbsp;nbsp;Hampshire village if the baby-sitter's employer hadn'tnbsp;nbsp;been Gale Grayson, a self-exiled American with anbsp;nbsp;suspicious past. Three years before, Chief Inspectornbsp;nbsp;Daniel Halford had watched helplessly as Gale'snbsp;nbsp;husband put a gun in his mouth and pulled the triggernbsp;nbsp;-- seconds before Halford could arrest him fornbsp;nbsp;terrorism. Halford has never forgotten the scene ornbsp;nbsp;the pregnant young widow whose life was shatterednbsp;nbsp;-- and as he questions her now, he finds past andnbsp;nbsp;present emotions blurring his judgment. Yet piecenbsp;nbsp;by piece he is discovering some unsettling truthsnbsp;nbsp;about the life of Lisa Stillwell... and a chillingnbsp;nbsp;picture is forming of a village that is not quitenbsp;nbsp;as sleepy as it seems.