A question of identity : a Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler mystery
(2012)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/HILL,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Overlook Press, [2012]
©2012
©2012
DESCRIPTION
354 pages : map ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781468300505, 1468300504
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A particularly unpleasant murder, that of a very old woman in a housing project, rocks the town of Lafferton. The murderer has left a distinctive "sign" on the body and at the scene of crime. A couple of weeks later, a similar murder occurs, and a month or so later, so does another. Initial investigations discover that the mysterious "sign" left on the body was the calling card of a suspect who was charged with several murders in the northwest of the country, tried but acquitted on the grounds of insufficient evidence. All indications suggest that this person has simply vanished. Or is he right under their noses? Simon Serrailler is obliged to make delve deeper and scratch out answers