Book description
Fifteen years ago Susan Blacklock disappeared. Although Detective
Inspector Frank Elder has taken early retirement, the case still
plagues his mind.
Prime suspects, Shane Donald and Alan McKeirnan, were convicted a
year later of the brutal rape and murder of a young girl, and now that
Shane has been granted parole, Elder feels compelled to revisit the
past.
Then Shane disappears and another young girl is murdered. Elder's
involvement is now crucial.
Taunted by postcards from the killer, an increasingly desperate
Elder battles to keep his estranged family from being drawn into the
very heart of the crime.
John Harvey is the author of the richly praised Charlie Resnick
novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was named by The
Times as one of the '100 Best Crime Novels of the Century'. His
first novel featuring Frank Elder, Flesh and Blood, won the CWA
Silver Dagger in 2004, and a Barry Award for the Best British Crime
Novel published in the US in 2004. In 2007 John Harvey was awarded the
CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger and in 2009 he was awarded an honorary
degree, Doctor of Letters, by the University of Nottingham.
To find out more about John Harvey visit his website at: www.
mellotone. co. uk
