The death of a young artist leaves Gently desperately piecing together the portrait of a murderer.
When artist Shirley Johnson is murdered and her body dumped outside a provincial police headquarters, Gently is despatched from London to Northshire to take over the investigation. The prime suspect appears to be the woman's husband, a former bomber pilot with a guilty secret, but the other members of the woman's art group also have strong views about her and her controversial final painting - Dark Destroyer. With so many suspects to consider, Gently must get to the bottom of the mystery before the murderer manages to slip through his fingers.
Praise for Alan Hunter's Gently books:
'It is always a pleasure to look forward to another Gently book by Alan Hunter ...' Police Review
- ISBN10 1780331452
- ISBN13 9781780331454
- Publish Date 3 November 2011 (first published 2 January 1996)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Constable
- Edition Digital original
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 256
- Language English