The Soldier in the WheatfieldParnello Moran buys a German romantic landscape at an auction, but then it's stolen from him. When he sets out to recover it he discovers all its recent owners met violent deaths. Gradually he uncovers a deeper past, and the biggest surprise of all the secret of the soldier in the wheatfield.

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to spend time with his grown-up lesbian daughter on her remote farm

The murder investigation is never going to be easy and the police find themselves caught between factions who insist the dead girl had been a compulsive liar

This is a hilarious and swashbuckling adventure

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and casts dark shadows

the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband

Aware of Thomas's background as a mathematician and his expertise in codesand ciphers

the son of a newspaper magnate

it is 1917 and Daniel's great grandfather Andrew is preparing to go over the top at Passchendaele

as she wonders who killed her and why