Step into the world of Coroner Jenny Cooper in The Redeemed, the gripping third instalment in Matthew Hall's CWA Gold Dagger shortlisted series.
A mystery from the past. A deadly secret in the present.
The body of a dead man is discovered in an overgrown cemetery in Bristol, the sign of the cross gouged into his flesh. At first it seems to coroner Jenny Cooper that all the evidence points to a horrific, if routine, suicide.
Then an enigmatic young priest, Father Lucas Starr, arrives on Jenny's doorstep, entreating her to hold an inquest into the death of Eva Donaldson, a high profile political campaigner whose past life continued to haunt her. A young man, Paul Craven, has recently been sentenced for Eva's brutal murder. But despite Craven's conviction and the evidence against him, Father Lucas is convinced of the man's innocence.
Jenny's lone quest for justice will take her to the dark heart of an establishment who wish to silence her, and on an inner journey to confront ghosts that have haunted her for a lifetime. For Jenny Cooper answers to no one but the dead . . .
The Redeemed is followed by the fourth book in the Coroner Jenny Cooper series, The Flight.
The Jenny Cooper novels have been adapted into a hit TV series, Coroner, made for CBC and NBC Universal starring Serinda Swan and Roger Cross.
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Jenny Cooper has made it into her third breathlessly enjoyable novel. She's stubborn, insubordinate, leads a chaotic life and is prone to exceed her legal powers. She's mentally and emotionally unstable, under psychiatric care, and consumes many pills. Fortunately she is also obsessed with seeing that, as coroner, she does justice to the dead * The Times * The Redeemed, is the third crime novel in Matthew Hall's successful Jenny Cooper series, which continues to go from strength to strength . . . Jenny Cooper is a great series character * Bookseller * Readers of Patricia Cornwell will very much enjoy this psychological thriller * Library Journal *
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Interest Age: From 18 years
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978-0-230-75940-4 (9780230759404)
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Matthew (formerly M. R.) Hall is a screenwriter and 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 lives in the Wye Valley in Monmouthshire with his wife, journalist Patricia Carswell, and two sons. Aside from writing, his main passion is the preservation and planting of woodland. In his spare moments, he is mostly to be found amongst trees. His books in the Coroner Jenny Cooper series include The Coroner, The Disappeared, The Redeemed, The Flight, The Chosen Dead, The Burning and A Life to Kill.
