Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
Estranged from his family for most of his adult life, Chris Napier is persuaded to return home for his niece's wedding. At the reception, he is shocked to recognise a dishevelled intruder as his childhood friend Nicky Lanyon, whose presence is a chilling reminder of a murder and subsequent trial that Chris has tried hard to forget.

When Nicky hangs himself, Chris is compelled to revisit the tragic events of 34 years ago, and the apparent justice that was served. But as present day mysteries begin to shadow his footsteps into the past, his search for the truth soon becomes a desperate struggle for his own survival.

Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall. Corgi Books, ISBN: 9780552164184 (March, 2011), 397 p., £7.99.

Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall (USA 2009)

From the Publisher:
On a bright autumn afternoon in Truro, the Napier family celebrates one couple's golden wedding anniversary and another's marriage. But for one member of the clan, the day turns dark. Chris Napier, prodigal son, suddenly spots the ragged specter of a former friend, Nicky Lanyon -- a man whose own family was ruined by the same twist of fate with which the Napiers were blessed. And the next morning, Chris is horrified to find Nicky dead, hanging from a tree where the boys once played...

For Chris, the suicide opens a floodgate of doubt and suspicion. How did his family's wealth slip out of the hands of a great-uncle, brutally murdered before he could change his will? Were the men convicted of the crime truly guilty? And who is the mysterious, seductive woman who claims to know the Napiers' darkest secrets? As the crimes of two families are exposed, a series of violent acts shadows him and suddenly Chris knows he's in uncharted waters... until a killer drops one last disguise -- for the ultimate act of revenge.

Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall. Delta Trade Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780385341141 (February, 2009), 353 p., $12.00

Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
At a wedding party in Cornwall, Chris Napier, the bride's uncle, is accosted by a drunken, disheveled, and evidently distraught intruder. The man turns out to be Chris's childhood friend Nicky Lanyon, whose father was hanged for the murder of Joshua Carnoweth-Chris's great-uncle and the man behind the Napier family's inherited state of affluence. Pleading his father's innocence, Nicky commits suicide, forcing Chris to test the truth of his friend's conviction. The conduct of more than one member of his own family begins to dog his hesitant footsteps into a past slowly darkening with the shadows of corruption, greed, lies, child abuse, and good old-fashioned revenge.

Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall. Henry Holt, ISBN: 0805061975 (April, 1999), 320 p., $14.00

Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
At a wedding party in Cornwall, Chris Napier, the bride's uncle, is accosted by a drunken, disheveled, and evidently distraught intruder. The man turns out to be Chris's childhood friend Nicky Lanyon, whose father was hanged for the murder of Joshua Carnoweth-Chris's great-uncle and the man behind the Napier family's inherited state of affluence. Pleading his father's innocence, Nicky commits suicide, forcing Chris to test the truth of his friend's conviction. The conduct of more than one member of his own family begins to dog his hesitant footsteps into a past slowly darkening with the shadows of corruption, greed, lies, child abuse, and good old-fashioned revenge.

Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall. Henry Holt, ISBN: 0805051104 (June, 1998), 310 p., $25.00

Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
At a wedding party in Cornwall in the summer of 1981, Chris Napier is shocked to recognise a dishevelled intruder as his childhood friend Nicky Lanyon, whom he has not seen since his father, Michael Lanyon, was hanged for the murder of Chris's great-uncle, Joshua Carnoweth, in 1947.

It was the inheritance of old Joshua's fortune that led the then humble Napier family to their present state of affluence. When Nicky subsequently hangs himself, Chris sets out on a journey into his own and others' memories of the tragic events of 34 years before. Driven on by Nicky's firm belief in his father's innocence, he begins to doubt the offical version of those events and to question the conduct of several members of his own family.

Then other present-day mysteries begin to dog his footsteps into the past and soon his search for the truth becomes a desperate struggle for his own survival.

Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall. Corgi Books, ISBN: 0552142255 (December, 1997), 406 p., £5.99.

Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
It is a summer afternoon in 1981. At a wedding party being given by the Napier family in the grounds of what had once been their house in Cornwell, Chris Napier, the bride's uncle, is shocked to recognize a drunken,dishevelled and evidently distraught intruder. It is his childhood friend, Nicky Lanyon, whom Chris has not seen since his father, Michael Lanyon, was hanged for the murder in 1947 of Chris's great-uncle, Joshua Carnoweth.

It was the inheritance of old Joshua's fortune that led the then humble Napier family to their present state of affluence. When Nicky subsequently hangs himself in the grounds of the Napier house, Chris sets out on a journey into his own memory that takes him into greater depth and detail than at any time since that tragic event in his boyhood.

Impelled to test the truth of Nicky's firm belief in his father's innocence, he soon realizes that his understanding of the events surrounding the murder is no understanding at all. The conduct of more than one member of his own family begins to seem mysterious. And soon other, larger mysteries begin to dog his hesitant footsteps into the past...

Once again Robert Goddard teases and questions our assumptions, as he challenges those of his characters. Once again he confirms his reputation as 'a compelling storyteller of our time'.

Robert Goddard: Beyond Recall. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0593036174 (June, 1997), 317 p., £15.99 (?).