Death and Roddy Melville

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 31 37 1)>A fallen hero.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 31 37 1)>A defaced family heirloom.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 31 37 1)>A buried secret that refuses to die.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 31 37 1)>When war hero and heir to the Dunfermline Earldom Roderick Melville is killed in the trenches in 1916 his family is lost in grief. Four years later on the anniversary of his death a shocking and seemingly senseless act of vandalism shatters their fragile healing. As suspicions ripple through the grand estate and the surrounding village old wounds are reopened and long-buried truths edge closer to the surface.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 31 37 1)>For new governess Claire McKinley the Melville household offers both a new start and a fascinating puzzle. But as she's drawn deeper into the horror of murder and betrayal she discovers that the dead don't like puzzles.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(29 31 37 1)>Who would dare desecrate a hero's memory and who wants Claire McKinley gone no matter the cost?</span></p>