Rough Cider Author:Peter Lovesey Dr Theo Sinclair enjoys his quiet, scholarly, and somewhat lonely life as a university lecturer. Until his life is disrupted by Alice, a beautiful young Amercan visitor who wants Sinclair to tell her about a crime he witnessed as a child - a crime that ended in the hanging of her father nearly twenty years previously. Duke Donovan had been a U... more ».S. serviceman stationed in Somerset during the waning years of Workd War II. He and another G.I. had enjoyed helping with the apple harvest at the cider farm where the then-nine-year-old Sinclair had been evacuated from London. The discovery of a human skull in a cider barrel led to Duke's arrest and murder conviction. And Sinclair had been principal witness for the prosecution. Determined to find the truth about her father, Alice persuades the reluctant Sincalir to revisit the farm and track down the different people who took part in the apple-picking. The horrors of the past take on a frightening immediacy when another murder is committed.« less