A Double Coffin - Brossura

Butler, Gwendoline

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ISBN 10: 0006497748 ISBN 13: 9780006497745

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1998

Riassunto

‘Her [Gwendoline Butler’s] inventiveness never seems to flag; and the singular atmosphere of her books, compounded of jauntiness and menace, remains undiminished’ Patricia Craig, TLS

A visit to the riverside apartment of the long retired former prime minister, Richard Lavender, is to have startling consequences for John Coffin. For it transpires that the old man, nearing the end of his life, has a confession to make: he is the son of a serial killer. He tells Coffin how, as a boy, he helped to bury one of his father’s victims. Feeling death is near, he wants to repair and reclaim the past – with Coffin’s help.

Unsure whether Lavender is caught up in fantasy or telling the truth, Coffin agrees to investigate and appoints Chief Inspector Phoebe Astley to the task. But then a young woman is found murdered on a foggy November night, and all too soon the sins of the past and present come together in a terrifying denouement.

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Recensione

‘Butler distils her own brand of disquiet: omnipresent and irresistible’
Sunday Times

‘Manages at least one between-the-eyes surprise, and that’s rarer than you might think’
Guardian

L'autore

Gwendoline Butler is a Londoner, born in a part of South London for which she still has a great affection. She was educated at Haberdashers and then read history at Oxford. She now spends her time travelling, looking at pictures, and – of course – writing. She lives in Surrey.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0006497748
• ISBN 13: 9780006497745
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224