Mercies of Moon Crescent

"He was never a good man." Vissy was known to say little else when talking about her husband Gilbert, who liked to go long walking and not talk about it when he got back. Otherwise, she was a pleasant woman. Mavis was her given name but she had gone by Vissy since a girl. She lived to the age of ninety-two, dying in her bed in 1996. Cam remembered his grandmother as stoic and a little demanding. His older brother Jeffery knew her as a kind and generous woman, but Cam never saw her like that. 1948 was the last Vissy had seen of Gilbert, but she always lived in hope that one day he would step through the front door again. When Cam Mercie returns to live in his family home, he finds it has rekindled unwelcome memories for his mother Bev. The unsolved mystery of what happened to both his father and grandfather lingers not only in the Mercie household, but also in the entire county.