The Judgment of Strangers
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ISBN: 140132262X / Publisher: Hyperion - Acquired Assets, February 2009
The "prequel" to The Four Last Things journeys back in time a generation to 1970 to chronicle Angel's childhood in a village near London, in a mystery that explores the events that cause a beautiful young girl to grow up to become a serial killer. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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'Complex, with lots of sinister implications! moves the traditional crime novel on to some deeper level of exploration' Jane Jakeman, Independent It is 1970. David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a darker future, brings home a new wife to Roth. Throughout the summer, the consequences of the marriage reverberate through a village now submerged in a sprawling London suburb. Blinded by lust, Byfield is oblivious to the dangers that lie all about him: the menopausal churchwarden with a hopeless passion for her priest; his beautiful, neglected teenage daughter Rosemary; and the sinister presence of Frances Youlgreave -- poet, opium addict and suicide -- whose power stretches beyond the grave. Soon the murders and blasphemies begin. But does the responsibility lie in the present or the past And can Byfield, a prisoner of his own passion, break through to the truth before the final tragedy destroys what he most cherishes
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