The Vanished Child: 1 (A Reisden and Perdita Mystery)

Someone killed Richard. Now Richard wants to know why. New England 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered. His grandson Richard the only witness is shocked into silence then disappears presumed kidnapped and killed. Switzerland 1905. Alexander von Reisden intellectual immoral and unstable is recognized as Richard. Despite Reisdens insistence hes not Richard he is drawn into the affairs of the Knight family--gaining the hatred of the new heir and the friendship of the heirs young fiancee Perdita Halley. But as Reisden tries to find out why Richard died he begins to have unsettling feelings of familiarity. For he is a man without memory of his own childhood and his obsession with finding Richard is leading him closer to a shattering truth. And to a killer still at large...