A death in summer - Benjamin Black

When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, clutching a shotgun, few see his demise as cause for sorrow. But Doctor Quirke and Inspector Hackett realise that, rather than suicide, 'Diamond Dick' was murdered. Jewell had many enemies and suspicion falls on one of his biggest rivals. But as Quirke and his assistant Sinclair get to know Jewell's enigmatic wife, and his fragile sister, it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. As Quirke's investigations return him to the orphanage of St Christopher's, events take a much darker turn. But what have the benefactors of St Christopher's to do with it all?