The Belting Inheritance

Lady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting in mourning for her two sons lost in the Second World War. Long afterwards a stranger arrives at Belting claiming to be the missing David Wainwright who was not killed after all but held captive for years in a Russian prison camp. With Lady Wainwright's health fading her inheritance is at stake and the family is torn apart by doubts over its mysterious long-lost son. Belting is shadowed by suspicion and intrigue and then the first body is found. This atmospheric novel of family secrets first published in 1964 is by a winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger.