Title: Touched by the dead
First published: 1999
Description: Those two days in May seem to be a highpoint in Colin Pinnock's life: a stunning election victory, a new govenment, and junior office for himself. But among the many congratulations he receives is one hostile message, a grubby card asking: 'Who do you think you are?' Is this merely someone putting him back in his place, or do the words have a more profound meaning? Who, indeed, is he? And who were his real parents? As Colin investigates these questions he is led back in time to an old political scandal: a murder case which led to a politician's downfall and disappearance. Events in the present, however, start tangling with those of the past, and he finds himself the object of a series of incidents that at first seem designed to bring down his career with ridicule, but later actually threaten his life. A beautifully written, intriguing mystery in which past crimes come back to haunt today's innocents.
Subjects: Psychological fiction, Fiction, Politicians, Mystery fiction, Scandals, Murder, Investigation, Large type books, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, London (england), fiction, Politicians, fiction, Literature and fiction, mystery and suspense, Fiction, general, Musicians, fiction, Fiction, political, England, fiction
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