The Burning (6) (Coroner Jenny Cooper series)
Price
$12.64
Format
Hardcover
Pages
416
Publisher
Mantle
Publication Date
Main Market Ed. edition (February 27, 2014
ISBN-13
978-0230752047
Dimensions
6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
Weight
1.49 pounds
Description
"Tense, atmospheric." — Publishers Weekly M. R. Hall is a screenwriter, producer, and former criminal barrister, a profession he left due to a constitutional inability to prosecute. Educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Worcester College, Oxford, he is the author of the double CWA Gold Dagger shortlisted Coroner Jenny Cooper series, including The Coroner , The Disappeared , The Redeemed , The Flight , The Chosen Dead , and the short story The Innocent .
Features & Highlights
- A family tragedy. A buried secret. What lies hidden in the flames? A dense, bitterly cold fog has settled over the Wye Valley when Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper is called to the scene of a dreadful tragedy: in the village of Blackstone Ley, a house has burned to the ground with three members of a family inside. Though evidence of foul play is quickly uncovered, it isn’t long before the police investigation is drawn to a close. It seems certain that the fire was started by one of the victims, Ed Morgan, in a fit of jealous rage. But their infant son is still missing, and Ed had left a message for his surviving wife, Kelly Hart, telling her that she would never find the child . . . As Jenny prepares the inquest she finds herself troubled by the official version of events. What could have provoked Ed’s murderous rampage? How might the other, guarded inhabitants of the village have been involved? And what could the connection be with the mysterious abduction of a little girl 10 years ago? Battling to suppress grueling events in her own life, Jenny soon becomes entangled in another perplexing inquiry that may have surprising links to this one. Can she unearth Blackstone Ley’s secrets, before it’s too late?
