Celia Fremlin - The Long Shadow

Imogen husband has died and now Imogen became a widow. However, when on Christmas all her relatives and friends come in curious things began to happen and it is revealed that her husband was not very much the person they thought they know. Celia Fremlin (1914 - 2009) was a writer only of peculiar domestic thrillers where all the actions are happening in a house. It is fantastic how she make most mundane things scary and dangerous. However, Celia Fremlin's daughter commited suicide, and soon her husband commited suicide, so it is from that tragedies that her novels came upon. This particular novel is on the list of H.R.F. Keating list of best crime novels