The Dead of Winter - Softcover

Lisa Appignanesi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0593043928 ISBN 13: 9780593043929

Publisher: Bantam, 1999

Synopsis

‘I don’t understand it. I don’t understand why you hate us. Tell me, Pierre.’ Madeleine lashes out at me, finding a ready target for her vehemence. ‘ Why do you want to hurt us, kill us? Why? So many of you seem to be demented. Men hating women, violent men, killers, serial killers everywhere.’

A deranged assassin has gunned down fourteen women students in Montreal. Celebrated actress Madeleine Blais, back for once in her native city, is haunted by a sense that somewhere out there, where her filmed image roams so freely, someone is determined to kill her too. Her old friend and lawyer, Pierre Rousseau, can do nothing to shift her growing despair. So when on Christmas morning she is found hanging in a barn close to her grandmother’s house in the small Laurentian town of Ste-Anne, the obvious verdict is that Madeleines depression has driven her to suicide. Only her grandmother's unshakeable belief in Madeleine's love of life induces the police to launch a murder investigation.

While the police conduct their own inquiries, Pierre decides to take things into his own hands: he trusts neither the canny Montreal detective called in by the mayor nor the lazy local police chief. But as certain intriguing facts about Madeleine’s past and the moments where it shades into his own unfold, it emerges that Pierre himself has secrets to hide and until he confronts them, the mystery of Madeleine’s death will remain forever unknown.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593043928
• ISBN 13: 9780593043929
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352