The Murdered House

Informationen zum Autor Pierre Magnan was born in Manosque in 1922 and has rarely left his native Provence. In 1943, during the Occupation, he fought with the Resistance in the Isère, and in 1946 he published his first novel, L'Aube Insolite . During his lifetime he published over twenty novels, four of which have so far been translated into English. He died in May 2012, at the age of 89. Klappentext One dark night in the winter of 1896, in remote upper Provence, a family is brutally massacred. In 1920, the orphan, S-raphin Monge, finally returns home from the war to pursue the truth. Haunted by the image of his mother's dying moments, he turns on the house that has seen such misery, destroying it stone by stone. Zusammenfassung One dark night in the winter of 1896, in remote upper Provence, a family is brutally massacred. Only a three-week-old baby miraculously survives. In 1920, the orphan, S-raphin Monge, finally returns home from the war to pursue the truth. Haunted by the image of his mother's dying moments, he turns on the house that has seen such misery, destroying it stone by stone. As the walls crumble, the killers' identities are laid bare and his anger turns to vengeance. But for every murder S-raphin plots, another hand silently executes it in his place.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Magnan
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 0
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2003
• EAN: 9780099448723
• ISBN: 978-0-09-944872-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage Crime; Vintage Crime
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)