A Darker Side of Paradise - R.J. Ellory
R.J. Ellory
- Pages · 496 pages
- Publication Date · 06/11/2025
- Genre · Crime & mystery
A brand new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS****Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before. It will not be her last. Her first murder case is a young woman - sent off to sleep with a mysterious note that quotes from an eight-hundred year old book: Dante's Divine Comedy. So begins an investigation that will haunt her for the rest of her life, and lead Rachel on a descent into obsession that upends everything she thought she knew about justice. As the killings unfold over the decades, Rachel's obsession will drive her from small-town America through the streets of NYC, to a revelation that will cost her everything. Because every case she thought she solved was a lie. And the truth is more dangerous than she could have imagined. ****PRAISE FOR R.J. ELLORY'Beautiful and haunting... A tour de force' MICHAEL CONNELLY
'Beautifully written novels that are also great mysteries' JAMES PATTERSON'A uniquely gifted, passionate, and powerful writer' ALAN FURST
'In the top flight of crime writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'The master of the genre' CLIVE CUSSLER
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