Detective Branch : A Pyke Novel

A valuable religious artefact appears to have motivated the robbery but when the main suspect commits suicide in police custody, the investigation falters. A few months later, the rector of a wealthy parish is brutally murdered and the manhunt that follows seems to implicate an former prisoner, now looking for redemption. But Pyke's suspicions take him in another direction and lead him to a dissolute former Catholic priest and rumours of Devil worshipping.

And when a City Alderman dies in suspicious circumstances, the trail of blood leads first to a charismatic mesmerist and an alluring painter and then to the murders of two boys five years earlier.With time running out and the murderer thereating to kill again, Pyke must face up to forces within the police and the church who would rather the secrets of the past remained buried forever.

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SKU SKU8319

ISBN Number 9780297855279

Author Andrew Pepper

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