The Detective's Daughter - Hardcover

Thomson, Lesley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750540397 ISBN 13: 9780750540391

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2015

Synopsis

A woman follows in her father's footsteps by taking on the murder case he couldn't solve.

It was the murder that shocked the nation. Thirty years ago Kate Rokesmith went walking by the river with her young son. She never came home.

For three decades her case file has lain, unsolved, in the corner of an attic. Until Stella Darnell, daughter of Detective Chief Superintendent Darnell, starts to clear out her father's house after his death...

THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER SERIES:
The Detective's Daughter
Ghost Girl
The Detective's Secret.

About this title

Review:

'Skilfully evokes the era and slow-moving childhood summers ... A study of memory and guilt with several twists' Guardian.

'A haunting novel about loss and reconciliation, driven by a simple but clever plot' Sunday Times.

'This book has a clever mystery plot – but its excellence is in the characters, all credible and memorable' Literary Review.

About the Author:

Lesley Thomson was born in 1958 and grew up in London. She went to Holland Park Comprehensive and the Universities of Brighton and Sussex. Her first novel, A Kind of Vanishing, won the People's Book Prize in 2010. Her second novel, The Detective's Daughter, was published in 2013 and sold over 300,000 copies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0750540397
• ISBN 13: 9780750540391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 592