Before the poison
Chris, a film composer and widower, returns to the Yorkshire Dales to grieve his wife and write his piano sonata. He soon finds himself distracted, though, when he discovers that a murder was committed in his rented house by a woman who was one of the last women hanged in England.
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Detective and mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0771076223
- ISBN: 9780771076220
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434 pages, 4 unnumbered pages - Publisher Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, [2011]
- Copyright ©2011
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 437-438). |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 29.99 |
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Before the Poison
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Before the Poison
From bestselling author Peter Robinson comes this atmospheric, suspenseful, and thrilling standalone novel Through the years of success in Hollywood composing film scores, Chris always promised his wife they'd return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now a widower, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to grieve and the peace to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s, and the convicted murderer was one of the last women hanged in England, he finds himself increasingly distracted by the events of sixty years before . . .