The Coffin Tree
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The burnt corpse in London's Second City is only one of a series of murders in a case that begins with the deaths of two of John Coffin's own detectives. In his efforts to solve the crimes, Coffin is forced to question his own judgement, and to confront the mysteries of another human heart.
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'Gwendoline Butler is excellent on the bizarre fantasies of other people's lives and on modern paranoia overlaying old secrets; and her plots have the rare ability to shock'Andrew Taylor, Independent
'Butler distils her own brand of disquiet: omnipresent and irresistible' Sunday Times
'Gwendoline Butler writes detective novels that both in method and atmosphere are things apart... she achieves that real whodunit pull' The Times
'Gwendoline Butler is excellent on the bizarre fantasies of other people's lives and on modern paranoia overlaying old secrets; and her plots have the rare ability to shock'
Andrew Taylor, Independent
'Butler distils her own brand of disquiet: omnipresent and irresistible' Sunday Times
'Gwendoline Butler writes detective novels that both in method and atmosphere are things apart... she achieves that real whodunit pull' The Times
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Gwendoline Butler was born and brought up in south London and was one of the most universally praised of English mystery authors. Her John Coffin procedural series features the titular police inspector rising through the ranks to Commissioner in London's Docklands area in the 1960s/70s, and eventually moving to a fictional Second City of London.