Dear Ms Cach,
While this isn’t one of my favorites, I still enjoyed it. I remember it being a departure from the other books you had published then by virtue of it having no paranormal elements, despite the title. However, as several reviews stated, a reader does need to suspend a little belief in order to completely buy into the story.
Konstanza Bugg fled to the coast of Cornwall after two years of marriage to a much older man her dying mother had begged her to marry. John Bugg has turned out to be a thoroughly vile and disgusting man with perverted tastes who’s latest sexual trick to try is tying Konstanza up and using his riding crop on her. Well, enough is enough and Konstanza flees with her maid Hilde to a recently inherited cottage in distant Cornwall. There she tries to live simply and keep a low profile.
Unfortunately, Konstanza is seen one day while taking a swim and exercising the lovely voice she inherited from her opera singing mother. The local excise man, portrayed as more than a little gullible, has seen …
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