In the absence of Absalon
By: Simon Okotie
Publisher: Salt Publishing Ltd; Salt Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781784631024; 9781784631031
Subjects: Missing persons; Fiction
Description: In the Absence of Absalon revolves around an unnamed investigator, a set of keys and a townhouse. He is investigating a series of disappearances: of his colleague, Marguerite; of Harold Absalon, the Mayor’s transport advisor, whose disappearance Marguerite had been investigating prior to his own disappearance; of Richard Knox, the owner of the townhouse, who had fallen out with Absalon before disappearing; and of Absalon’s wife Isobel, who is glimpsed, partially undressed, in an upper storey bedroom as the investigator approaches. Pursued from all sides and seemingly losing his mind, what the investigator discovers, as he enters the house, is both familiar and utterly devastating. --Publisher's description.