Man's Loving Family - Tapa dura

George Man is glad to take a job bodyguarding merchant Abraham Sinclair's son, whose murder has been prophesied in an almanac. Man is less glad when the prophecy is fulfilled in front of him, by his friend Richard Savage. Man is sure another hand is behind the killing, and sets out to investigate.

Born in the mid-West in 1949, Keith Heller for many years taught English literature, most recently at a Californian University. Together with his wife and daughter he lived abroad for seven years, three of which were spent in Madrid. He also lived in Japan and Argentina. A published poet, he is the author of a highly acclaimed trio of crime novels set in eighteenth-century London, which appeared in the UK and America in the mid-eighties. SNOW ON THE MOON is his first work of general fiction. Now retired from university teaching, he lives in California where he writes full time.