A Child's Book of True Crime
Chloe Hooper
Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted pupil, Lucien. As her sexual life is awakened by the father, the guilt she feels towards the son is compounded. Meanwhile, Veronica, her lover's wife, has just published Murder at Black Swan Point, a true crime novel about the brutal slaying of a young adultress, set in a nearby town.
Kate is fixated on the crime of passion that occurred years earlier, less and less aware of her own reputation in the present. Is she caught playing a game where she no longer knows the rules? And has her obsession with the crime aligned her fate with the murdered adultress?
