TY  - BOOK
AU  - Airth,Rennie
TI  - The reckoning: a novel 
SN  - 9780670785681
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Viking
KW  - Madden, John (Fictitious character)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - Serial murder investigation
KW  - England
KW  - Detectives
KW  - FICTION
KW  - Mystery & Detective
KW  - Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Traditional British
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Originally published : London : Mantle, 2014
N2  - "The Second World War has ended, leaving a bruised and fragile peace. But this tranquillity is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex countryside. Before long, police experts discover a link to another, earlier, killing hundreds of miles away ... While Scotland Yard detective Billy Styles struggles to find a link between these two murders, a strange twist of fate brings former Detective Inspector John Madden into the investigations. As the victim count rises it becomes clear that to catch this serial killer Madden, Styles and young policewoman Detective-Constable Lily Poole must act quickly. But Madden remains haunted by the mysteries at the heart of the case. Why was his name in a letter the second target had been penning, just before he died? Could the real clue to these perplexing murders lie within the victims' pasts? And within his own? With this stunning, atmospheric crime novel teeming with twists and moving between the 1950s, the First and Second World Wars, Rennie Airth, the author of River of Darkness, The Blood-Dimmed Tide and The Dead of Winter presents his greatest and most compelling novel yet"--
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