Days of Atonement ****DOUBLE SIGNED, LINED & DATED ****

Gregorio, Michael; Pearce Stoner Associates Staff

ISBN 10: 0312376448 / ISBN 13: 9780312376444

Published by St Martin's Press, New York, 2008

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US 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINT, SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, LINED & DATED TO TITLE PAGE. Book as new, unread, FINE condition. ynopsis 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? A military conspiracy involving Prussian troops? Or are the French using the massacre to expand their power?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Days of Atonement ****DOUBLE SIGNED, LINED & DATED ****
• Publisher: St Martin's Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312376448
• ISBN 13: 9780312376444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

In French-occupied Prussia, local magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis is enlisted by the French authorities to investigate the brutal killings of a mother and her three children and finds himself searching for the victim's missing husband, evading bandits, and protecting the local resistance movement in his pursuit of a killer, in a mystery set during the Napoleonic wars. 15,000 first printing.

About the Author

MICHAEL GREGORIO is the pen name of Michael G. Jacob and Daniela De Gregorio. She teaches philosophy; he teaches English. They live in Spoleto, Italy. Michael Gregorio was awarded the Umbria del Cuore prize in 2007.