The Distant Echo
by:
Val McDermid (author)
Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in n ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only...
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Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in n ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are four young students stained with her blood.
Twenty-five years later, Fife police moubt a cold case review. Among the unsolved murders they're examining is that of Rosie Duff. But someone else has their own idea of how justice should be done. One of the original quarted dies in a suspicious house fire. Soon after, a second is killed in what looks like a burglary gone sour. But Alex fears the worst. Someone is takingg revenge for Rosie Duff. He has to find out who it is before he becomes the next victim. And it might just save his life if he can uncover who really killed Rosie all those years ago.
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źródło okładki: http://www.bookdepository.com/Distant-Echo-Val-McDermid/9780753118504
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780312994839
Publish date: 2003 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: BCA
Pages no: 482
Edition language: English
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