Amnesia

Michael Ridpath
Works of: Fiction

Alastair Cunningham wakes up in hospital with almost total amnesia. But he knows that something terrible has happened in the past, something that haunts him still. A young family friend, Clémence, is called in to help him rekindle his memory. Retreating with Alastair to his remote cottage, Clémence finds a peculiar manuscript hidden away from prying eyes. Reading the prologue, she discovers a murder by someone very much like a young Alastair. The victim? Clémence’s grandmother, Sophie. Could this kindly old man truly be a killer? Clémence becomes determined to find out what happened all those years ago, even if she must risk everything to do so…