女検死官ジェシカ・コラン ロンドンの十字架（下）

女検死官ジェシカ・コラン #7B

by Robert W. Walker, ロバート・ウォーカー, 瓜生 知寿子 (翻訳)

死体を検分したジェシカは、舌の裏に文字が焼印されていることに気づく。それはラテン語の祈祷の文句だった。聖職関係者の助力も得て、どうやら犯人はキリストの再臨を願って十字架上に次々と犠牲者を捧げているらしいことが判明する。カルト集団による犯行という見通しだけは立ったまま、ジェシカはロンドン警視庁のシャープ警部とともに、死体に付いていた石炭粉と甲虫という謎を解き明かすべく奮闘するが、そんな二人を嘲笑うかのように、魔の手はジェシカにも…。戦慄のシリーズ新展開。

340 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Aka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson

Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.