Flowers in Winter

Why isn’t there more revenge in the world? The courts are constantly failing victims of crime, just as they failed Antonina Downing. So much so that she determined to set out on a course of action that would put right the wrongs that had been done to her. Except that her plan spiralled out of control and led in a direction she least expected, towards a second catastrophe.

Why isn’t there more revenge in the world? The courts are constantly failing victims of crime, just as they failed Antonina Downing. So much so that she determined to set out on a course of action that would put right the wrongs that had been done to her. Except that her plan spiralled out of control and led in a direction she least expected, towards a second catastrophe.

Peter Watson was educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome, and was awarded scholarships in Italy and the United States. After a stint as Deputy Editor of New Society magazine, he was for four years part of the Sunday Times ‘Insight’ team of investigative journalists. He wrote the daily Diary column of the London Times before becoming that paper’s New York correspondent. He returned to London to write a column about the art world for the Observer and then at The Sunday Times. He has published three exposes in the world of art and antiquities and from 1997 to 2007 was a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He has published twelve books of non-fiction and nine novels, some under the pen name of Mackenzie Ford. He lives in London where his interests include theatre, opera and fishing.