Sublime

And Detective Inspector Hobbes knew then: the house had taken possession of him. The spirits of the family, the occupants. If he made his way back downstairs and peered out through the back door, the garden would be empty; and if he walked across the lawn and looked up at the third-floor window, the same woman would be there, looking down at him, w

She takes the stairs, dreading what she might find. The strip light flickers in the corridor that she and Mirsad share. She's about to enter her flat when she sees Mirsad's door has been left ajar. She crosses the hall and pushes. The door swings open and she at once steps back and away. She must have made a mistake.

She forces herself back to the t

been placed in hiding from the world. Carfax had visited Compton Wynyates and marvelled there at the faintly similar effect to that now before him;