You Yet Shall Die

A novel about family secrets and discovery of a long-ago crime. Hilda is a reclusive single woman who lives on the North Kent marshes with her rescue cats. One day she has a visit from a young woman called Nicky, who claims to be her half-sister, the "love child" of Hilda's father who has recently died. When Hilda's brother Dunstan hears about Nicky he is enraged. Dunstan is already on the verge of mental and physical collapse following the death of the father he idolized, the loss of his job, the breakdown of his marriage and his financial woes. Seeing Nicky's arrival as a threat to his family's reputation and his own inheritance, he turns to desperate measures. These events compel Hilda to investigate the shocking truth about her father's past and her mother's untimely death.