Death's Dark Shadow--A Novel Of Murder In 1970's Yorkshire (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
‘So this is the sequence of events,’ she said, summing up. ‘They’ve eaten the paella. Everybody at the table is looking at the pictures Louisa took with her to Spain, and when they eventually reach Elena Vargas, she finds herself gazing down at a newspaper photograph of a husband she probably thought was long dead. And not only that, but standing beside her husband is another man who she doesn’t recognize – after all, she’s not seen him since he was a baby – but who has her son’s name. There’s no wonder she went into shock, is there?’ ‘But why did she decide to run the risk of coming to England on a false passport?’ Beresford asked. ‘Why didn’t she just write to them?’ ‘Travelling on a false passport wasn’t much of a risk at all, because, according to Charlie Woodend, the communist party have got pretty adept at forging,’ Paniatowski said. ‘And if she’d written a letter, there’s a good chance that it would never have got through. Franco may be dead but, so far, nothing much seems to have changed, and there’s still strict censorship in Spain.’ ‘And if the censor happened to see that she was writing to a man who is – presumably – still wanted for the murder of an officer and two soldiers, she’d be in deep trouble,’ Meadows added.
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