num_pages: 336
description: A particularly unpleasant murder that of a very old woman in a housing project rocks the town of Lafferton. The murderer has left a distinctive sign on the body and at the scene of crime. A couple of weeks later a similar murder occurs and a month or so later so does another.Initial investigations discover that the mysterious sign left on the body was the calling card of a suspect who was charged with several murders in the northwest of the country tried but acquitted on the grounds of insufficient evidence. All indications suggest that this person has simply vanished. Or is he right under their noses? Simon Serrailler is obliged to make delve deeper and scratch out answers in this addictive mystery of surpassing darkness by the bestselling Susan Hill.
language: English
title: A Question of Identity
publisher: Overlook Press