- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New Ed edition (25 Sep 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 000649028X
- ISBN-13: 978-0006490289
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,195,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The burnt corpse in London's Second City is only one of a series of murders in a case that begins with the deaths of two of John Coffin's own detectives. In his efforts to solve the crimes, Coffin is forced to question his own judgement, and to confront the mysteries of another human heart.
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'The Coffin Tree' grew in London's Second City, surviving the elements against all the odds. Near it, a shrouded body had been burnt on what looks like a funeral pyre. Had the victim climbed on to the fire to die? Or was it murder? The frazzled corpse turns out to be only one in a whole sweep of killings… starting with the deaths of two of John Coffin's own detectives.
In his efforts to solve the grotesque crimes casting a shadow over the Second City, Coffin is forced to question his own judgment, and to confront the untapped mysteries of another human heart…
‘Butler has the light touch of a master and a beguiling soul in the somberly monikered Coffin’
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‘Gwendoline Butler writes detective novels that both in method and atmosphere are things apart… she achieves that real whodunit pull’
MARCEL BERLINS, 'The Times'
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Coffin is back
11 Oct 2002
Format:Paperback
The Second City of London shimmers in the stultifying heat, and Commander John Coffin tries to maintain law and order in his sprawling bailiwick. His new hand-picked undercover unit--headed by an old flame--is trying to halt a violent money-laundering operation. Two of the investigating officers ar dead, "accidentally" it seems, but Coffin suspects murder. A bizarre fire yields another body, apparently the wife of one of the dead officers. Heat doesn't suit Coffin's Docklands--nor his personal life with his wife, mercurial actress Stella Pinero. But ironically, it is Stella's cool insight and Coffin's own instincts that lead him to a killer.
Very enjoyable book, especially if you like books about British police.
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