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Truck-stop waitress Luanne Evans had known the customer who wound up in her trailer one night was not exactly one of the local boys. As to who he was, she didn't care. For when he was gone, she would have nothing but memories. Or so she thought…. Prince Aleksander Vlastos had run out on Luanne eleven years ago, and he'd lived with regret ever since.But regret wasn't the only thing he'd left behind. There was a ten-year-old child – the heir to Alek's throne. Luanne had had him for ten years, and now it was his turn. She owed him. And he'd come to collect….

Like an archaeological dig, The Roth Trilogy strips away the past to reveal the menace lurking in the present: ‘Taylor has established a sound reputation for writing tense, clammy novels that perceptively penetrate the human psyche’ – Marcel Berlins, The TimesThe shadow of past evil hangs over the present in Andrew Taylor's Roth Trilogy as he skilfully traces the influences that have come to shape the mind of a psychopath.Beginning, in The Four Last Things, with the abduction of little Lucy Appleyard and a grisly discovery in a London graveyard, the layers of the past are gradually peeled away through The Judgement of Strangers and The Office of the Dead to unearth the dark and twisted roots of a very immediate horror that threatens to explode the serenity of Rosington's peaceful Cathedral Close.