Description
Product ID: | 9781447261254 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Inspector Madden series |
Title: | The Reckoning |
Authors: | Author: Rennie Airth |
Page Count: | 384 |
Subjects: | Historical crime and mysteries, Historical mysteries |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The fourth book in the much acclaimed Inspector John Madden series from the author of River of Darkness, The Blood-Dimmed Tide and The Dead of Winter. <p><i>The Reckoning</i> is a stunning, atmospheric crime novel teeming with twists and moving between the 1940s, the First and Second World Wars.<br><br>The Second World War has ended, leaving a bruised and fragile peace. But this tranquillity is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex countryside. Before long, police experts discover a link to another, earlier, killing hundreds of miles away . . .<br><br>While Scotland Yard detective Billy Styles struggles to find a link between these two murders, a strange twist of fate brings former Detective Inspector John Madden into the investigations.<br><br>As the victim count rises it becomes clear that to catch this serial killer Madden, Styles and young policewoman Detective-Constable Lily Poole must act quickly. But Madden remains haunted by the mysteries at the heart of the case. Why was his name in a letter the second target had been penning, just before he died? Could the real clue to these perplexing murders lie within the victims' pasts? And within his own?<br><br>Rennie Airth, the author of <i>River of Darkness</i>, <i>The Blood-Dimmed Tide</i> and <i>The Dead of Winter</i> presents his greatest and most compelling novel yet.</p> |
Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-11-19 |