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Former cop Frank Elder is once more drawn out of retirement by a phone call from his ex-wife, this time asking him to look into the disappearance of her friend Jennie's older, widowed sister Claire in Nottingham. Elder reluctantly agrees to return to the city where his family disintegrated.
Elder soon uncovers sexual secrets of Claire's that take Jennie by surprise. But when Claire is found dead at home--unmarked and carefully dressed--it is Elder who is surprised by the similarities to an old case. To solve this riddle, Elder will have to repartner with another person from his past, Detective Inspector Maureen Prior, and delve into several suspects' own traumatic histories.
In a case in which neither memories, confessions, nor instincts can be trusted, Elder struggles with the weight of the past and Harvey delivers another psychologically trenchant page-turner.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
John Harvey, 1938 in London geboren, hat rund 100 Bücher (Krimis, Western, Jugendromane, Lyrik, u. a.) unter diversen Pseudonymen veröffentlicht und überdies als Drehbuchautor für Hörfunk und Fernsehen gearbeitet. Darüber hinaus ist er Verleger, vorwiegend von Lyrik, und begeisterter Jazzer. 2007 wurde John Harvey von der britischen Crime Writers' Association mit dem "Diamond Dagger" für sein Lebenswerk ausgezeichnet. Mit seiner Krimi-Serie um Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick wurde John Harvey zu einem der "Masters of British crime fiction".
