Reckoning

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1940s
A01=Rennie Airth
Author_Rennie Airth
C J Sansom
Category1=Fiction
Category=FFH
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classic crime
COP=United Kingdom
crime
Crime series
detective
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First World War
Format=BC
Golden age crime
Great War
historical
historical crime
HMM=197
IMPN=Pan Books
ISBN13=9781447261254
Language_English
murder
mystery
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20150528
Police procedural
POP=London
Price=€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Pan Macmillan
Scotland Yard
serial killer
SMM=25
Subject=Crime & Mystery
suspense
thriller
veteran
WG=306
whodunnit
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WW1

Product details

  • ISBN 9781447261254
  • Weight: 422g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 25mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Nov 2015
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: London, GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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The Reckoning is a stunning, atmospheric crime novel teeming with twists and moving between the 1940s, the First and Second World Wars.

The Second World War has ended, leaving a bruised and fragile peace. But this tranquillity is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex countryside. Before long, police experts discover a link to another, earlier, killing hundreds of miles away . . .

While Scotland Yard detective Billy Styles struggles to find a link between these two murders, a strange twist of fate brings former Detective Inspector John Madden into the investigations.

As the victim count rises it becomes clear that to catch this serial killer Madden, Styles and young policewoman Detective-Constable Lily Poole must act quickly. But Madden remains haunted by the mysteries at the heart of the case. Why was his name in a letter the second target had been penning, just before he died? Could the real clue to these perplexing murders lie within the victims' pasts? And within his own?

Rennie Airth, the author of River of Darkness, The Blood-Dimmed Tide and The Dead of Winter presents his greatest and most compelling novel yet.

Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters. The first novel in his John Madden series, River of Darkness, was published in 1999 to huge critical acclaim, was shortlisted for four crime fiction awards and won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France. River of Darkness was followed by The Blood-Dimmed Tide, the CWA Ellis Peters Award shortlisted The Dead of Winter and now The Reckoning.

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