Published 06/06/2019 | Paperback / softback,
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Now a major Channel 5 series’The Queen of Crime.’ New York TimesAn unfinished manuscript. A murder stranger than fiction. Battered by the conclusion of a particularly brutal murder case in London, Superintendent Adam Dalgleish decides to escape to the countryside for a hard-earned break.
But before long, the discovery of the mutilated body of a local crime writer sends shock waves through the small town of Monksmere, where Dalgliesh is staying. Faced with such a macabre crime, Dalgleish feels compelled to join the investigation – but as he delves into the dead man’s secrets, the case seems poised to take another murderous turn. . .
‘We’re hooked.’ Evening Standard’P. D. James is an addictive writer.’ Anita Brookner