The Silent Sleep Of The Dying (Eisenmenger-Flemming Forensic Mysteries) - Plot & Excerpts
He couldn't decide where this impression originated, wondering if it was something that Helena had said, although in truth he could not pinpoint any precise words she had used to suggest it. The reality was different. Millicent Sweet's father was large; large and composed, but composed into incandescence, defined by his anger and his disbelief that Millicent was dead. Eisenmenger could see that those three words had corroded him, eaten into him like a parasitic grub, and now all that remained was the anger, girded by determination. He worked as a building labourer, the weather having blasted him, cursed him and then kissed him with its burning lips, the work having left him strong and hard and quiet. His wife had died five years before — "Blood poisoning," he said, "following a dog bite" — and, although he gave forth no more details, it was clear that he had seen Millicent's death as the second half of a terrible, terrible bane, a misfortune beyond all others.
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