by Rennie Airth · ISBN 9782253171973
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«Un fleuve de ténèbres» is the crime novel by Rennie Airth, published by Editions de Fallois in paperback (474 pages, in French).
In 1921, young Billy Styles, newly joined the police, witnesses the discovery of a quadruple murder in a Surrey mansion. Inspector John Madden, sent by Scotland Yard, rules out robbery as a motive and believes a methodical killer may strike again; the only witness is a girl in shock. To solve it, he turns to a disciple of Freud, one of the first criminal profilers.
First installment of the Inspector John Madden series. Originally published as «River of Darkness», it won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 2000.
For fans of period crime novels and thrillers with psychological investigation.
Rennie Airth was a South African novelist who resided in Italy most of his life. Airth also worked as foreign correspondent for the Reuters news service.
