Darkness and Light: (Frank Elder)

Darkness and Light: (Frank Elder)

by JohnHarvey (Author)

Synopsis

She wore a gold dress, short-sleeved, its skirt full-length and slightly flared. He could see the faint indentation on her left hand, a pale circle of skin giving away the fact that, until recently, a wedding ring had been there. She looked peaceful, lying there on the bed, her arms resting easily together, the left hand on the right, a slender silver cross and chain encircling her neck, and not a wrinkle, not a fold of her dress out of place. And, perhaps, she truly was at peace. For she was dead. This was the sight that greeted Detective Inspector Frank Elder on his first case with the Serious Crimes Unit. His first case and never solved; no one was ever charged; the murderer never found. At liberty to walk the streets, and to kill again. Eight years later, Elder's estranged wife contacts him in his Cornish hideaway. Her friend's sister Claire - a quiet and withdrawn widow in her fifties - has mysteriously disappeared. Elder, reluctantly, agrees to dig around and see what he can find. Then Claire is found, dead, arranged with meticulous detail on her bed, and it doesn't take long for Elder to make the connection. It's obviously the work of the same unbalanced individual and, to find the killer, Elder must shine a light into the darkest recesses of human behaviour, the dark and twisted recesses of a disturbed human mind...

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 464
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 01 Feb 2007

ISBN 10: 0099489953
ISBN 13: 9780099489955
Book Overview: The third DI Frank Elder novel, from the master of British crime writing.

Media Reviews
A really seductive trip into the concealed hinterlands of sexuality -- Christopher Brookmyre
With Frank Elder's third outing, John Harvey performs the hat-trick. Another fine story which engages at all levels. If Harvey gets any better, the rest of us may have to kill him. -- Reginald Hill
Darkness and Light is... crime fiction at its best * George Pelecanos *
A classy novel from one of our finest crime writers * Sunday Telegraph *
Author Bio
John Harvey is the author of the richly praised Charlie Resnick novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was named by The Times as one of the '100 Best Crime Novels of the Century'. His first novel featuring Frank Elder, Flesh and Blood, won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2004, and a Barry Award for the Best British Crime Novel published in the US in 2004. In 2007 John Harvey was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger and in 2009 he was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, by the University of Nottingham. To find out more about John Harvey visit his website at: www.mellotone.co.uk