Coffin's Ghost by Gwendoline Butler
'[Gwendoline Butler's] inventiveness never seems to flag; and the singular atmosphere of her books, compounded of jauntiness and menace, remains undiminished' Patricia Craig, TLS Everyone has a few ghost in their lives, especially John Coffin, Chief Commander of the Second City of London's Police. He had thought all his were laid to rest though, and, newly recovered from a gunshot wound, is hoping for a calmer life with his actress wife Stella Pinero. But he is soon to learn how wrong he is when a parcel containing dismembered limbs is found outside a women's refuge. The Serena Seddon Shelter for battered wives is located in Barrow Street, not far from Coffin's own home in St Luke's Tower. The link to Coffin, though, is more sinister than mere proximity, for the initials J.C. are written on the package, and the shelter is housed in the building where he lived on his arrival in the Second City. The discovery opens a door, through which troop a succession of horrible and violent events: lies, deception and sudden death. Thus Coffin's ghost walks...
'Gwendoline Butler is excellent on the bizarre fantasies of other people's lives and on modern paranoia overlaying old secrets; and her plots have the rare ability to shock' Andrew Taylor, Independent 'Butler distils her own brand of disquiet: omnipresent and irresistible' Sunday Times 'Gwendoline Butler writes detective novels that both in method and atmosphere are things apart.. she achieves that real whodunit pull' The Times
Gwendoline Butler is a Londoner, born in a part of South London for which she still has a great affection. She was educated at Haberdashers and then read history at Oxford. She now spends her time travelling, looking at pictures, and -- of course -- writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780006513612 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006513611 |
| Title | Coffin's Ghost |
| Author | Gwendoline Butler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2000-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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