Hindsight A Crime Novel [Paperback]

In this brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a writer looks back on his past and discovers the memory of a murder that needs to be solved

It’s been forty years since Paul Rogers spent a night at St. Aidan’s Preparatory School. When a biographer asks the now-middle-aged novelist about his youth, it triggers memories that Rogers thought he had lost forever. He begins writing about the summer of 1940, when the Nazis took Paris and his entire boarding school was evacuated to a country house in Devon. There the boys discovered a pastoral countryside whose woods held untold mysteries—one of which, Rogers realizes in hindsight, might have been a murder.
 
To write about this long-forgotten crime, Rogers digs deep into his past, uncovering terrifying recollections that may or may not be real. Something gruesome happened that summer, but understanding it will force Rogers to clear the fog of memory and unravel its mysteries once and for all.

“A highly intelligent, appealing, and quite beguiling novel.” —The Washington Post Book World
 
“Much more than a murder story . . . [Hindsightis] an awfully good novel.” —Ruth Rendell
 
“[Hindsight] flies just about as high as the detective story can go.” —H. R. F. Keating
 
“Peter Dickinson is no ordinary writer. . . . Readers ofHindsight[will be] dazzled.” —Los Angeles Times
 
“A terrific blend of intelligence and suspense.” —Publishers Weekly
 

Peter Dickinson was born in Africa but raised and educated in England. From 1952 to 1969 he was on the editorial staff of Punch, and since then earned his living writing fiction of various kinds for children and adl£J