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Coffin's Ghost

โœ Scribed by Butler, Gwendoline


Book ID
107621363
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
204 KB
Series
John Coffin 31
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780312279974

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โœฆ Synopsis


Everyone has a few ghosts in their closets, but John Coffin, Chief Commander of the Second City of London's Police believes that his are all safely tucked away. In fact, recently recovered from a gunshot wound, Coffin is hoping for a calmer life with his actress wife Stella Pinero.

However, life has other plans for him. Coffin learns that all of his ghosts are not behind him when a parcel containing dismembered limbs is found outside a woman's refuge. The Serena Seddon Shelter for battered wives is located on Barrow Street, not far from Coffin's own home. But the link to Coffin is more sinister than mere proximity: his initials are written on the package and the shelter is housed in the building where he lived when he first arrived in the Second City. This discovery opens a door through which troop a succession of horrible and violent events including sudden death.

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