All the Colors of Darkness Summary
When the body of a man is discovered hanging from a tree in the woods near
Eastvale, all signs point toward suicide. At least that's what it initially
looks like to Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot.
The man is soon identified as Mark Hardcastle, the set and costume designer for
the local amateur theater company. Mark was successful and well liked in the
community, but enough remains mysterious about his background that suicide isn't
completely out of the question. But when Mark's older and wealthier lover is
discovered bludgeoned to death in his home, Annie begins to think differently.
Could it have been a crime of passion, or did overwhelming grief lead to a man
taking his own life? Increasingly confounded, she calls in the vacationing Chief
Inspector Alan Banks—even if it means prying him away from his new girlfriend.
Once on the investigation, Banks finds himself plunged into a case where nothing
is as it seems. More and more his own words about the victim's latest
production, Othello, are coming back to haunt him, for "jealousy,
betrayal, envy, ambition, greed, lust, revenge—all the colors of darkness" are
quickly becoming his world as well.
