女検死官ジェシカ・コラン ロンドンの十字架（上）

女検死官ジェシカ・コラン #7A

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

異様な連続殺人事件がロンドンで発生していた。三つの死体は全裸のまま川や湖のほとりで発見され、体じゅうに油が塗られていた。しかも手足に太い釘を打たれたあとがあり、十字架にかけられて殺されたらしい。捜査に行き詰まったロンドン警視庁は、FBIの検死官ジェシカに協力を要請、彼女はアメリカでかかわっていた事件に心を残しつつ、大西洋を渡った。だが警視庁上層部は“植民地”からの応援を喜んでいないふしがあり、手がかりの少なさとともに、ジェシカのプロファイリングは難航する。

354 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.