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Pantheon
March 2007
On Sale: March 6, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0375421971
EAN: 9780375421976
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Thriller | Mystery
The author of Borkmann's Point spins a story that leaves
even the most veteran crime novel readers chilled. A new case for Chief Inspector Van Veeteren - the
complicated history of a nearly perfect murder. On a sunny
August day a man is released from prison. On a rainy April
day children at play find his corpse. The fact that the
dead man is Leopold Verhaven only becomes clear after some
time because the mutilated corpse is without its head, legs
and feet. Who would be interested in killing this man, a
double murderer who spent 24 years in prison? Determined to let no case go unsolved, Chief Inspector Van
Veeteren reopens the case. What he discovers is that
Verhaven was a star sprinter before he went to prison for
allegedly killing two of his lovers. However, he never
confessed to the murders and spent a lifetime proclaiming
his innocence. Was he killed because someone thought he had
not been punished enough? Or was someone afraid of
Verhaven's revenge? A terrible suspicion stalks Van
Veeteren: had Verhaven been telling the truth? Was he
really innocent?
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