Another classic mystery from the 'master of the clever twist'.It is a hot summer's day in the tourist village of Avebury.A man sits outside the Red Lion pub, waiting. He sees a woman with three young children, two of them running ahead while their sister dawdles behind. A child's voice catches on the breeze.For want of anything more interesting to do, the man watches. He sees nothing sinister or threatening. Even when another figure enters his field of vision, he does not react. The figure is ordinary - male, short-haired, stockily built.But he is moving fast, at a loping run.And then it happens. In one swift movement, the running man grabs the youngest child and carries her away. Still the man outside the pub does not react. Suddenly, awhite transit van bursts into view, its engine racing, its rear door slamming shut.The child and her abductor are inside. The child's sister rushes forward. The man outside the pub jumps up...The tragedy begins at Avebury.But it does not end there.

Robert Goddard

Penguin Random House Distribution

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London: Bantam

Transworld

Century

United States, United States of America

Airport / Export Ed, 2005

June 1, 2005

London, 2005

Sharp confronts Umber, whose explanation for being at the scene of the tragedy has always seemed dubious. Obliged to accept Umber's denial of authorship of a letter, he nonetheless forces him to join in a search for the real culprit - and hence the long concealed truth about what happened 23 years previously.

Efter 23 år genåbner sagen om 2 små piger, som i juli 1981 blev henholdsvis myrdet og bortført. Ganske vist har en berygtet pædofil i mellemtiden tilstået, men et anonymt brev overbeviser pensioneret kriminalinspektør George Sharp om at den skyldige stadig er på fri fod

In the spring of 2004, retired Chief Inspector George Sharp receives a letter signed 'Junius' reproaching him for botching the 1981 investigation. Sharp confronts Umber, whose explanation for being at the scene of the tragedy has always seemed dubious.

The abduction of a two-year-old and the violent death of her sister while at Avebury in 1981 affects the future lives of all of the witnesses

2023-06-28