A novel faithfully based on a sensational real case that took place in Kincardineshire in 1968 and the salacious details of which, with naked parties, sex orgies, drugs and alcohol, fast cars, violence and aristocracy, gripped the whole of Scotland.
One murder. Three versions of the story.
A gunshot ends the life of Maxwell Robert Garvie on a May night in 1968. Three people are accused of the crime: his wife, his wife's lover and a young man whom Max had never met. They offer conflicting versions of what happened, practically the only commonality being that Max is dead. And yet, this story is not about Max. It is about his wife, Sheila.
Sheila, more than either of her co-accused, stands as an enigma for the detectives working on the case, as a wronged innocent for the lawyers hired to help her. She is branded by the media as a scandalous femme fatale, a murderous mastermind, a Lady Macbeth.
The narrative seeks to uncover, as far as it can, the truth regarding Sheila's involvement in her husband's death. |
