The detective’s daughter

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Summer, 1981. The body of Kate Rokesmith is found by the River Thames in London. Her four-year-old son is wandering nearby, traumatised and mute. Detective Inspector Darnell cancels yet another trip he has promised his daughter Stella and heads for the scene of the crime. The murder is never solved. Winter, 2011. It’s another busy day at the Clean Slate office. Owner and head cleaner Stella Darnell is annoyed to have her routine interrupted by the news that her father has died of a heart attack. Dutifully sorting his belongings, she finds the case papers for the Kate Rokesmith murder gathering dust in his attic. Stella cannot resist the lure of bringing order to chaos. Red pen in hand, she determines to find the killer.

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As winter closes its grip on snow-bound London, a cleaner determines to solve the case that her detective father never could. A Kindle number one bestseller. It was the murder that shocked the nation. Kate Rokesmith, a young mother, walked to the banks of the Thames with her three-year-old son. She never came home.For three decades, the case file has lain, unsolved, in the corner of an attic. Until the detective’s daughter, Stella Darnell, starts to clear out her father’s house after his death…Reviews for The Detective’s Daughter: ‘A haunting novel about loss and reconciliation, driven by a simple but clever plot’ Sunday Times ‘This book has a clever mystery plot – but its excellence is in the characters, all credible and memorable, and in its setting in a real West London street, exactly described’ Literary Review ‘A thoughtful, well-observed story… It reminded me of Kate Atkinson’ Scott Pack ‘A cerebral thriller… Evokes chills from more than just the frigid winter nights’ Forward Reviews Magazine ‘Lesley Thomson gets better and better’ Ian Rankin

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Weight 0.336 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 3.2 cm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

472

Language

English

Edition

Reprint

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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