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Severn House
Category:
Crime
Publisher: Severn House
ISBN-10: 0727863576
Pages: 218
Copyright: Sept 2006
Rob Beresford has never been in trouble until the night he comes home and tells his mother he has just killed a man.
Hours later, Rob is found dead in the canal, an apparent suicide.
There seems to have been no link between Rob and Adam Hensel, the dead man, and Rob's mother, Clara, finds it impossible to beleive her son could have been responsible. She is determined to get to the truth. Unfortunately for Clara, truth is not always a comfortable or a comforting thing and she and Rob's friends discover a tangle of relationships and complexity of motives fro which they are utterly unprepared.
He was covered in blood, his hands, his face, the open jacket and white T-shirt beneath.
"Mum!"
He staggered in through the open door and fell in a heap on the hall floor.
"Mum, he's dead. I killed him."
Clara couldn't absorb the words; they were too alien, too meaningless. "You're hurt," she said. "Oh Rob, oh God, what have you done?"
She knelt beside him, pulling him into her arms, her hands moving over his body as she sought the wound that was producing so much blood.
"It isn't me," he whispered. "Mum, I killed him. He's lying there, dead, and I did it." He turned to look at her, his face grey with shock, eyes stricken, filled with such horror that Clara could hardly bear to look into them.
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