What came before he shot her
By: Elizabeth George.
Edition: 1st Harper large print ed.
Publisher: HarperLargePrint
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1028
Subjects: Lynley, Thomas (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Abandoned children -- England -- London -- Fiction; Male juvenile delinquents -- England -- London -- Fiction; North Kensington (London, England) -- Social conditions -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.