TripletreeOn a sultry summer night in 1994, Nathaniel and Katherine Gye are guests at a Civil War fancy dress party. The theme of the occasion is apt because Tripletree, the Jacobean manor house in the heart of the Cotswolds where the event is being held, is steeped in history and enjoys a colourful past. But at the end of a glittering evening tragedy strikes, and the body of a woman is dragged from the lake. This is merely the first of a catalogue of

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