Description
IN THE RED-HOT FINALE TO PETER MAY'S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ENZO FILES, ENZO MACLEOD WILL FACE HIS MOST CHALLENGING COLD CASE YET.
ENDS MACLEOD'S QUEST WITH A FLOURISH. ---MARILYN STASIO, THE NEW YORK TIMES
A SATISFYING SURPRISE. --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
THE LAST SHALL BE BEST. --KIRKUS REVIEWS
Western France, 1989A weeping killer deposits the unconscious body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin, her head wrapped in a blue plastic bag, into the waters of a picturesque lake. Lot-et-Garonne, 2003
Fourteen years later, a summer heat wave parches the countryside, killing trees and bushes and drying out streams. In the scorched mud and desiccated slime of the lake, a fisherman finds a skeleton wearing a bag over its skull. Paris, October 2011
In an elegant apartment in Paris, forensic expert Enzo Macleod, now fifty-six years old, pores over the scant evidence of the sixth and final cold case he has been challenged to solve. The most obvious suspect is R gis Blanc, a former pimp already imprisoned for the murders of three sex workers, who may have been Lucie's lover in the months before her disappearance. But R gis has a solid alibi, and Enzo has a feeling the real explanation might be more complicated. In taking on this old and seemingly impossible-to-crack case, Enzo puts everything and everyone he holds dear in terrible danger--and in ways even he never could have imagined.
Author: Peter May
Publisher: Quercus Books
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781681441610
ISBN10: 1681441616
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Police Procedural
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | International Crime & Mystery
- Fiction | Thrillers | Crime
ENDS MACLEOD'S QUEST WITH A FLOURISH. ---MARILYN STASIO, THE NEW YORK TIMES
A SATISFYING SURPRISE. --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
THE LAST SHALL BE BEST. --KIRKUS REVIEWS
Western France, 1989A weeping killer deposits the unconscious body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin, her head wrapped in a blue plastic bag, into the waters of a picturesque lake. Lot-et-Garonne, 2003
Fourteen years later, a summer heat wave parches the countryside, killing trees and bushes and drying out streams. In the scorched mud and desiccated slime of the lake, a fisherman finds a skeleton wearing a bag over its skull. Paris, October 2011
In an elegant apartment in Paris, forensic expert Enzo Macleod, now fifty-six years old, pores over the scant evidence of the sixth and final cold case he has been challenged to solve. The most obvious suspect is R gis Blanc, a former pimp already imprisoned for the murders of three sex workers, who may have been Lucie's lover in the months before her disappearance. But R gis has a solid alibi, and Enzo has a feeling the real explanation might be more complicated. In taking on this old and seemingly impossible-to-crack case, Enzo puts everything and everyone he holds dear in terrible danger--and in ways even he never could have imagined.
Author: Peter May
Publisher: Quercus Books
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781681441610
ISBN10: 1681441616
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Police Procedural
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | International Crime & Mystery
- Fiction | Thrillers | Crime
About the Author
Peter May has written several standalone novels and three series: the critically acclaimed Enzo Files, featuring Scottish forensic scientist Enzo Macleod, set in France; the Lewis Trilogy (The Blackhouse, The Lewis Man, and The Chessmen), all three volumes of which were internationally bestselling novels; and the award-winning China Thrillers, featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell.