BEFORE THE POISON

This stand-alone is every bit as compelling as Robinson's Inspector Banks series. Chris Lowndes, who has been working in LA as a film composer, returns to Yorkshire after his beloved wife's death. Narrators Toby Moore and Susan Lyons are both vital to this presentation, which moves back and forth in time and point of view. Chris has bought a large, old house that once belonged to a doctor whose wife, Grace, was convicted of murdering him in 1952 and was hanged. Amid the bleak Yorkshire dales, Chris feels Grace's presence and attempts to prove her innocence. Moore splendidly renders the modern Chris and those he interviews tirelessly about Grace. Lyons movingly captures Grace through her heartbreaking WWII diaries, written in the Far East. The listener becomes as caught up with Grace’s story as Chris does. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2012]