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1784295043

The night gate.

Author: May, Peter.

Publication year: 2021

Language: English

Media class: Hardback

Publisher: London : riverrun, 2021.

ISBN: 9781784295042 (hbk.) : 20.00

Notes:

In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical, unfolding in the treacherous wartime years of Occupied France; the other contemporary, set in the autumn of 2020 as France re-enters Covid lockdown.