Death of a Murderer
Rupert Thomson
Having spent decades in prison for crimes gruesomely familiar to everyone in England, this murderer has finally died of natural causes but is no less notorious in death than she was in life. Billy Tyler, a career policeman, has been assigned the task of guarding her body — to make sure, he’s told, that nothing happens. But alone on a graveyard shift his wife begged him not to accept, Billy has occasion to contemplate the various turns his life has taken, his complicated thoughts about violence in himself and society, the unease that distances him marital disappointment and a damaged daughter, and, finally, why it is that this reviled…
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Форма: роман
Дата написания: 2007
Первая публикация: 2007
Язык: Английский
