River of Darkness  A John Madden Mystery  Rennie Airth - Author
Paperback | $16.00 | add to cart | view cart ISBN 9780143035701
| 448 pages | 31 May 2005 | Penguin | 5.31 x 7.63in | 18 - AND
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River of Darkness  Now in trade paperback—a smart and
suspenseful period thriller from "a major talent" (Chicago
Tribune)  Upon its original publication, River of Darkness awed
readers who look for intelligent, well-plotted psychological
mysteries. This “fine, frightening piece of work” (Kirkus  The
village was empty. Billy Styles couldn’t understand it. They
hadn’t seen a living soul on the road from the station, and even
the green was deserted, though the weather was the kind that
normally brought people out of doors. The finest summer since
the war!  The newspapers had been repeating the phrase for weeks
now as one radiant day followed another, with no end to the heat
wave in sight.  But here