Unholy Dying - Couverture rigide

Barnard, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0007102925 ISBN 13 : 9780007102921

Editeur : Collins Crime, 1999

Synopsis

'Robert Barnard is always original, never repeats himself and has a delectable wit' Jessica Mann, Daily Telegraph Cosmo Horrocks was over the moon. This was the juiciest story he'd had in years. In his job as an investigative journalist he spent his working days grubbing through the garbage bins of other people's lives (undeterred by the fact that his own wouldn't bear too much investigation), but this one seemed to have everything: religion -- the man was a Catholic priest; sex -- he was accused of impropriety with a teenage unmarried mother; money -- he was thought to have channelled parish funds in her direction. All the story lacked was mystery, but when it acquired that too Cosmo soon found himself out of his depth. The parish of St. Catherine's in Shipley is torn apart by the scandal, and by the secretive processes of its investigation which reveal dysfunctional families, shady doings in high places, and the brittle shell that respectability hides itself behind. When the truth is finally learned about Pardoe's supposed sins, and about the murder which they have brought in their wake, both parish and town have the wraps whipped away from their apparently happy and respectable existence.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Barnard was born and brought up in Essex. After leaving Oxford he worked as a university lecturer in New South Wales, and then taught in Norwegian universities for seventeen years, returning to England in 1983 to write full time. He and his wife now live in Leeds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Collins Crime
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007102925
• ISBN 13: 9780007102921
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Simone Casetta; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie