What came before he shot her
By: Elizabeth George
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9780340827505; 9780340827499
Subjects: Fiction; Abandoned children; Male juvenile delinquents; Social conditions
Description: In North Kensington three orphaned mixed-race children are bounced from one home to another. The middle child Joel takes care of the youngest, Toby, who isn't quite right. When a local gang threatens Toby, Joel makes a pact with the devil that ends in the murder of Thomas Lynley's wife.