"Daniel Pembrey tells a cracking tale with verve and style. He can write, the jury's not out on that one..." Susan Hill (author of The Woman In Black). When London-based obituaries writer Simon Sixsmith receives a letter out of the blue telling him he’s inherited a property in the Southern US, he can’t but help fly out and investigate. Yet when Simon arrives in the marshy South Carolina Lowcountry, all is not as it first seemed. As he is drawn deeper into his ancestors’ plantation-owning history, his problematic personal life and the horrifying events around the property combine into a macabre conclusion.
"Daniel Pembrey tells a cracking tale with verve and style. He can write, the jury's not out on that one..." Susan Hill (author of The Woman In Black). When London-based obituaries writer Simon Sixsmith receives a letter out of the blue telling him he’s inherited a property in the Southern US, he can’t but help fly out and investigate. Yet when Simon arrives in the marshy South Carolina Lowcountry, all is not as it first seemed. As he is drawn deeper into his ancestors’ plantation-owning history, his problematic personal life and the horrifying events around the property combine into a macabre conclusion.