- New York Times reviewed, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Banks, alan (fictitious character), fiction, England, fiction
A hiker's discomposing corpse is discovered by an unsuspecting tourist. But this strange, incomprehensible murder is only the edge of the darkness that hover over a small rural village and its tight-lipped residents.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Peter Robinson
- First published
- April 1990
- Pages
- 371
- Publisher
- Harper, Macmillan Audio Books, Pan Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780750503457
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