Joan has tried to live straight, but entanglement with a violent crime, followed by the swift and unpleasant eviction by her lover, leave her with few choices. Stung by this cavalier treatment, and anxious the police will blame her for the incident, Joan formulates a plan. She may be basically honest, but her years of being raised by a skilled poacher have taught her plenty of tricks. A key to her lover's unused country cottage, plus the devoted friendship of a stray mistreated spaniel are all she needs to get away and lie low. For a while, it looks like life may even be better than in the city - certainly the arrival of Ken, a handsome gamekeeper who admires her countryside expertise almost as much as her beauty, is a welcome surprise. But Ken's wife went missing a year ago, and there is talk in the community. Did she run off with a lover, or was she killed? And if so, killed by whom?
Author Biography
John Skelton was an ordained priest and rector. He was poet laureate at the University of Oxford and Cambridge University, a court poet for King Henry VII, and a tutor to King Henry VIII. Gerald Hammond is a professor of English at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Fleeting Things and The Making of the English Bible, and the editor of Selected Poems: Richard Lovelace.
