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Minotaur Books
September 2015
On Sale: August 25, 2015
Featuring: Detective Chief Inspector Guillermo Downes
384 pages
ISBN: 1250054192
EAN: 9781250054197
Kindle: B00QQB6PE2
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Mystery
Out here, in the quaint ceaseless calm of an English
village, it is hard to imagine a life beyond. From the
outside, everything seems to make sense. Everything has its
place. My friends are open and unsuspecting. There is none of the
natural suspicion of the Argentinian. . . For me, it's
unbelievable in a way. For two decades after being forced to leave his native
Argentina, Detective Chief Inspector Guillermo Downes has
sought tranquility in the orderly life of the English
Cotswolds. But violence can strike just as suddenly in the
countryside as it can in Buenos Aires. When the body of wealthy landowner Frank Hurst is found with
a pitchfork through his neck, it brings back disturbing
memories of former mysteries. Hurst's wife drowned in their
swimming pool-an official accident, though many villagers
have their doubts. And what about the two young girls who
were abducted years before, with some possible links to
Hurst that were never proven? ''It's something truly terrible to make someone
disappear,'' Downes tells his partner. Because the family
never know, you see." Years ago he had promised the vanished
girls' mothers to find their daughters, and as the ripples
from Hurst's death spread through the village, there is
fresh hope that he might finally make good on that promise,
no matter what it costs the community or himself. With the kind of insights into life in a seemingly peaceful
village that made Broadchurch so powerful, James Marrison's
THE DROWNING GROUND introduces a terrific new voice in crime
fiction.
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