In the Heart of the Country Kim Sherwood and Phyllis knows he spent

and Phyllis knows he spent several years in prison for white-collar crime

'The Companion is beautifully written and so evocative of time and place

Whether its a quick midweek dinner or an impressive party feast

Nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction' The Times

but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton

In the Heart of the Country Kim Sherwood and Phyllis knows he spentStifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. As she dreams madly of bloody revenge, Magda's consciousness starts to drift and the line between fact and the workings of her excited imagination