Cracking Open a Coffin
Published on 14. August 2014
240 pages
978-0-00-754549-0 (ISBN)
Description
Two women are brutally murdered within a year of each other. John Coffin, Commander of the Police, investigates. From one of the most highly praised English crime writers, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie.
Student Amy Dean has disappeared with her boyfriend Martin - a year after Martin's former girlfriend Virginia was found beaten to death. Then Amy's body is found, encased in a crude wooden box. The connection between the two incidents seems clear - but John Coffin, Commander of the Police, discovers that both girls worked at Star Court House, a home for battered women and children. Coffin is under pressure - personal and professional - to untangle a tragic web of murder and lies.
Student Amy Dean has disappeared with her boyfriend Martin - a year after Martin's former girlfriend Virginia was found beaten to death. Then Amy's body is found, encased in a crude wooden box. The connection between the two incidents seems clear - but John Coffin, Commander of the Police, discovers that both girls worked at Star Court House, a home for battered women and children. Coffin is under pressure - personal and professional - to untangle a tragic web of murder and lies.
Reviews / Votes
'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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ePub edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
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Reflowable
File size
0,67 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-00-754549-0 (9780007545490)
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Gwendoline Butler
Cracking Open a Coffin
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06/1993
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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.
