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 The Blood-red Rivers - Jean-Christophe Grange
Newest Review: ... the death of the child 14 years ago. Who was the mysterious nun remembered only by her sweet voice who arrived suddenly ... more  ... in the locality so many years before, called upon the parents of the primary school and then disappeared? Why have all records of the pupils of 1982/3 been removed? In Guernon the murder victim is identified as university librarian, Rémy Callois and a guoulish clue left on the body takes Neimans on a hair raising trip high upon and within a glacier, guided by the extraordinary young lecturer Fanny Ferreira. When another body is found Neimans is convinced that these are not random killings, but either rit...more |
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The Blood-red Rivers - Jean-Christophe Grange: Blood-Red Rivers (883 words)
by - written on 25/10/03 (Very useful, 101 readings)
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Although I like crime fiction, it takes more than a whodunnit to keep me happily reading a detective story. Much as I enjoy tv's Midsomer Murders I would not take an episode off the shelf. Jean-Christophe Grangé's Blood-Red Rivers has all I need to keep me turning pages as I wonder where on earth it is leading. A terribly mutilated corpse, which had been sadistically tortured before the victim's death, is found wedged behind a rock high in the French Alps above the university town of Guernon. Meanwhile 230 miles to the west a school has been broken into without any apparent theft and the tomb of 10 year old Jude Ithero has been disturbed. ... Read the complete review
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