<p><b>A prize-winning, spine-tingling gothic suspense novel based on a real-life murder trial in 1897 West Virginia</b><br><br><br><br><b>''A novel that demands you turn the pages'' <i>THE TIMES, BEST HISTORICAL FICTION</i></b><br><br><b>''A gothic mystery pulsing with suspense'' <i>MAIL ON SUNDAY</i></b><br><br><b>''Brilliant'' <i>IRISH TIMES</i></b><br><br>''<b>I was tenterhooked from the very first to the very last page''</b><b>JO BROWNING WROE, author of <i>A Terrible Kindness</i></b><br><br><b>''Compelling'' ANNE ENRIGHT</b><br><br>''<b>Truly superb</b>'' <b>VICTORIA MACKENZIE, author of <i>For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain</i></b><br><br>West Virginia, 1897. When young Zona Heaster Shue dies only a few months after her wedding, her mother Mary Jane becomes convinced that Zona was murdered - and by none other than her husband, Trout, the handsome blacksmith beloved in their small Southern town.<br><br> But when Trout is put on trial, no one believes he could have don