Inheritance Of Solomon Farthing

From the bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker - Waterstones Scotland's Book of the Year 2017 - comes a stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing, by Mary Paulson-Ellis.

When heir hunter Solomon Farthing sets out to solve one last case in an attempt to pay off his debts, he doesn't expect to find the deceased's affairs intertwined with those of his own grandfather.

As he pursues his dead client's living relatives in return for a share of their wealth, he traces the family tree back to 1918 and a mystery of a six-man firing squad at the very end of the war. Who was shot and why did it happen? In attempting to answer that question, Solomon Farthing discovers the true meaning of blood money, and a past that is itching to be reckoned with the present.

Set between contemporary Edinburgh and the final brutal days of the First World War as a group of British soldiers abandoned in a farmhouse billet in France await their orders, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing shows us how the debts of the present can never be settled unless those of the past have been paid first . . .