The Graveyard Position

"Robert Barnard has the habit of delighting his readers." SUNDAY TIMES Winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger Award After a twenty-year absence, Merlyn Cantelo returns to Leeds to attend his Aunt Clarissa's funeral. Far from being welcomed back into the fold of his large and quarrelsome family, he is viewed by many with suspicion and distrust. To some he is simply a wastrel who disappeared for no reason and whose timely reappearance has thwarted their prospect of a tidy inheritance. But the teenage Merlyn only fled his home at the vehement insistence of his sometimes clairvoyant aunt, who foresaw for him a life blighted by violence and death. Moreover, the root of this danger supposedly lies somewhere within the family. Merlyn knows that if he is to discover whether his aunt's fears were justified, he must come to terms with his tragic past - and delve into the murky history of the Cantelo family.