Death upon the Lonesome Wild

It’s 1955.

Gertrude and her brother Gerald, accompanied by Gerald’s tiresome American wife and grandsons, have travelled up to the Lake District to visit Gladys, the sister neither has seen in decades. After the death of Mabel, Gladys’ daughter, the previous year, Gertrude isn’t sure whether she will be warmly welcomed.

At the same time as their visit, the tranquillity of the Lakeland villages of Abbey Haven and Haven Bridge has been disturbed by the arrival of a film crew who there to shoot a film inspired by William Wordsworth’s poem Lucy Gray.

The film’s director and the local landowner are acquainted with one another, but their reunion is anything other than harmonious as bitter rivalries and dark secrets from their past erupt into violence.

The landowner, Sir Grenville Westhaven, has recently returned to the country following his honeymoon with Etta La Fay, the actress who is playing Lucy Gray in what is intended to be her swansong film.

When she disappears, it seems that Etta has many deeply hidden secrets of her own… secrets that lead to murder.

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