Joy Paul Stewart Once in the trenches

Once in the trenches

where young Arthur de Caldicot practises his tilting and archery

spreadeagled

The Private Patient is the fourteenth novel to feature the inspector protagonist Adam Dalgliesh

the strong-willed young woman whose path seems always to cross his own

Joy Paul Stewart Once in the trenches'Did she jump? Did she fall? Will she wake?' On an ordinary Friday afternoon in the office, talented young lawyer Joy Stephens plummets forty feet onto a marble floor. In the shadow of this baffling event, the lives of those closest to her begin to collide and change in unexpected ways. There is Dennis, her disgraced husband, who finds consolation in books; her colleague Peter, whose refuge is a mix of hedonism and hard work; Barbara, Joy's prickly