Book description
Enzo MacLeod, a Scot who is teaching forensics at Cahors in southwest
France, confidently bet that he could use his expertise to crack seven
notorious murders described in a book on cold cases by Parisian
journalist Roger Raffin. Enzo has in fact solved the first two crimes.
But the third is far from his mind at the moment. He's just been
diagnosed with a terminal illness, and now it appears he's the target of
someone intent on destroying his credit, his relationships, and getting
him arrested for murder. It's enough to bring out his Scottish
stubbornness. In this Job-like situation, it serves him well.
Establishing a safe house to protect his loved ones, besieged now as it
were, he sets to work. Are his woes connected to the digging he's done
into the brutal murder of a rent boy in a Paris apartment sixteen years
ago? What further remnants of evidence can he review? Can he stay alive
long enough to catch the long-hidden killer? A ruthless killer targets
a solver of cold cases. The oncologist has given forensic expert Enzo
MacLeod (The Critic, 2007, etc.) a death sentence. But he barely has
time to ponder his future when a frantic call from his daughter Kirsty,
with whom he has an uncertain relationship, sends him racing from his
home in Cahors to Strasbourg. Kirsty's friend was killed by a bomb meant
for her, and her apartment is trashed, their money stolen and their
credit cards canceled. On top of that, his daughter Sophie's boyfriend's
gym is torched, and the police are seeking MacLeod as a suspect in a
murder case back home. MacLeod quickly realizes a crafty killer has set
him up. The only bright spot is his one-night stand with Anna, a ski
instructor who offers his family a safe house in the Alps while he and
Kirsty's boyfriend Raffin, the journalist whose book on cold cases
started MacLeod on his quest, search France, England and Spain for the
person responsible for one of the unsolved cases on MacLeod's list.
Tension mounts as MacLeod learns that his opposite number is a
professional who has used many identities. Relentlessly stalked by the
murderer, he must use all his skills to get himself and his family out
of the case alive. A cerebral, chilling tale bound to burnish May's
reputation. Peter May won the Scottish Young Journalist of the Year
Award at the age of 21, and had his first novel published at 26. He then
left journalism and became one of Scotland's most successful and
prolific television dramatists. Returning now to novels, his outstanding
China Thrillers series of books are winning critical acclaim. To
research the series, Peter May makes annual trips to China. As a mark of
their respect for his work, The Chinese Crime Writers' Association made
him an honorary member of their Beijing Chapter. He is the only
Westerner to receive such an honour. Peter May is married to writer
Janice Hally and lives in France.
