Кэтрин Эрд – лучшие книги

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Молодому инспектору полиции доверяют дело об экстрадиции, обвиняемой в убийстве своего мужа, француженки, но она в свою очередь все отрицает, поэтому инспектор берется за расследование, в ходе которого выясняет новые шокирующие обстоятельства из жизни погибшего.

Larking was a typical English village and like the thousand other villages it resembled Larking had its secrets, as Inspector C.D. Sloan was to discover after the postman found the murdered body of Grace Jenkins in the road that led to her thatched cottage. But the real mystery involves Grace's daughter Henrietta since no one could really explain exactly who Henrietta really was.

Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan fully expected trouble when he was called in to the student sit-in at Calleshire University. The dons were nervous, the students excited - it seemed inevitable there would be a clash of some kind. But what did happen was totally unexpected. First there was a most peculiar theft from a dormitory room. And then a dying man was found clutching at one of the columns of the Tarsus cloister.

The dramatic theft of an 18th Century painting is discovered just moments before the old manor house from which it was stolen – and is uniquely depicted in the background of the portrait -- is set on fire. Making matters more grisly even is the pile of bones that is sighted in the blazing inferno moments before the roof collapses. What started as simple, if surprising, theft has quickly escalated to arson and, possibly murder, and now Detective Inspector Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby have to piece together, a puzzle which has its roots deep in Berebury’s history. Although Tolmie Park, the property on which the manor house sits, has had a somewhat checkered and mysterious past there are those in the community who would fight to preserve it. There are also a number of factions within the area who have differing plans to develop the property, shrouding the fire in further suspicion. It is up D.C.I. C.D. Sloan to sift through this assortment of characters and, finally, illuminate the truth.