Hindsight

A Crime Novel

By: Peter Dickinson

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Paperback | 7 April 2015

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184 Pages

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In this brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a writer looks back on his past and discovers the memory of a murder that needs to be solved

It’s been forty years since Paul Rogers spent a night at St. Aidan’s Preparatory School. When a biographer asks the now-middle-aged novelist about his youth, it triggers memories that Rogers thought he had lost forever. He begins writing about the summer of 1940, when the Nazis took Paris and his entire boarding school was evacuated to a country house in Devon. There the boys discovered a pastoral countryside whose woods held untold mysteries—one of which, Rogers realizes in hindsight, might have been a murder.

To write about this long-forgotten crime, Rogers digs deep into his past, uncovering terrifying recollections that may or may not be real. Something gruesome happened that summer, but understanding it will force Rogers to clear the fog of memory and unravel its mysteries once and for all.

Industry Reviews

"A highly intelligent, appealing, and quite beguiling novel." -The Washington Post Book World

"Much more than a murder story . . . [Hindsight is] an awfully good novel." -Ruth Rendell

"[Hindsight] flies just about as high as the detective story can go." -H. R. F. Keating

"Peter Dickinson is no ordinary writer. . . . Readers of Hindsight [will be] dazzled." -Los Angeles Times

"A terrific blend of intelligence and suspense." -Publishers Weekly

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