Perish the Day
A Thriller
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- 14,99 $
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Description de l’éditeur
Perish the Day is a riveting new mystery from John Farrow, an author who "brings a literary fiction writer's sensitivity to nuance and feel for landscape to this fine, character-rich thriller with a bang-up finish" (Booklist).
A co-ed is found murdered on campus, her body scarcely touched. The killer paid meticulous attention to the aesthetics of his crime. Coincidentally (or not), a college custodian is also found dead.
While an epic rainstorm assails the Holyoake, New Hampshire campus, overflowing rivers and taking down power lines, a third crime scene is revealed: a professor, formerly a spy, has been shot dead in his home. A mysterious note is found that warned him to run.
Each victim is connected to the Dowbiggin School of International Relations, yet none seems connected to the other. The dead student was a close friend of Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars’s niece, so he puts his nose in; when internecine battles between police departments create a rift, he covertly slips into the crevice so he can be involved in the investigation.
Coming up against campus secrets, Émile Cinq-Mars must uncover the links between disparate groups quickly before the next victim is selected for an elaborate initiation into murder.
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The excellent final volume in Farrow's Storm Murders trilogy (after 2016's Seven Days Dead) takes retired Montreal detective mile Cinq-Mars and his wife, Sandra, to New Hampshire to visit her dying mother. The couple also plan to attend the graduation of Sandra's niece Caroline from the Dowbiggin School of International Studies. But tragedy intervenes with the murder of one of Caroline's friends, Addie Langford, whose body is found posed on the stairs inside a campus clock tower. The killer redressed his victim, applied makeup postmortem, and adorned the corpse with a necklace. The family connection to Addie leads Sandra to encourage mile to play a part in solving the crime, despite intense opposition to his involvement from the state trooper overseeing the inquiry. The case is complicated by two other murders, which appear connected. John Verdon fans will be pleased by Farrow's pitting of his well-rounded lead against a puzzle worthy of the detective's acuity. Agents: Carolyn Forde and Bruce Westwood, Westwood Creative Artists (Canada).
