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In the late winter of 1979, Leeds housewife Ellen Heenan dies in childbirth -- abandoning a guilt-stricken husband to insanity's grasp and leaving four young children to find for themselves. Thirteen-year-old Matthew and Annie, age twelve, know what the authorities will do if the learn of Father's debilitating madness. A close-knit family will be speedily unravelled, its threads scattered carelessly to the winds. So deception is the only recourse -- a facade of normalcy that must be carefully constructed to fool prying neighbourhood eyes. And resourceful young Matthew and his sister have the situation well in hand -- until a freshly slain corpse turns up beneath the kitchen window ...'Gripping and satisfying' Chicago Tribune 'Subtle and surprising ...Robert Barnard at his best' San Diego Union-Tribune 'A sad, sweet horror of a story ...the suspense is delicious.' New York Times Book Review

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Crime & mystery

• Full title: Masters of the House
• Author: Robert Barnard
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194
• EAN: 9781447239574
• ISBN: 1447239571
• ID: 04800311
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Weight: 308 g
• Dimensions: 132 × 235 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. December 2012

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