Days of Atonement - Softcover

Gregorio, Michael

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571229301 ISBN 13: 9780571229307

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2007

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Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of their mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Hanno Stiffeniis, a Prussian magistrate, goes to investigate, but everything begins to unwind. Serge Lavedrine, a criminologist attached to the invading French army, steps in to resolve the mystery, and Stiffeniis is packed off to collect the husband from a remote fortress on the Russian border. But the husband, Bruno Gottewald, is dead and buried - killed while out on field manoeuvres.

In less than a week the entire Gottewald family has been wiped off the face of the earth. A tragic coincidence? Or are the French using the massacre to expand their power? Working independently of each other, Lavedrine and Stiffeniis seek to discovers how the crime was committed and the motive behind the massacre. But only Hanno's wife, Helena, knows what truly happened in that cottage in the woods...

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Praise for "Critique of Criminal Reason" ""Critique of Criminal Reason "is a marvellous highbrow thriller."---C. J. Sansom, author of "Sovereign" "One of those literary thrillers that come along every year or two to provide both intellectual and visceral pleasures for readers who neither move their lips nor fear weighty concepts.""---""The Washington Post" "Readers who seek substance along with thrills in their mystery reading will enjoy" Critique of Criminal Reason,"""---The Houston Chronicle" "Admirers of quality intellectual fiction should embrace this book, with its pitch-perfect period detail and psychologically complex protagonist.""---Publishers Weekly "(starred review) "An interesting historical thriller.""---The Chicago Tribune" "Sherlock Holmes himself would struggle to keep up with the master sleuth Gregorio brings to life.""---Booklist "(starred review)

Book Description:

Days of Atonement by Michael Gregorio is a thrilling and atmospheric mystery set in the frozen wastes of Napoleonic Prussia.

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