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327 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 2, 2024
Ilfracombe, England. DI Jan Talantire has been called to a little cottage where a senior citizen has been murdered, impaled with a crucifix. When she discovers that the name of the victim is Ruth Lyle, she is stunned. Almost exactly fifty years earlier, sixteen-year-old Ruth Lyle had been murdered, also impaled with a crucifix, at exactly the same location. The old evidence is now inaccessible due to the passage of time and the shoddy maintenance of paper documents, and the new evidence suggests that the victims are the same. How is this possible? Is someone copying the earlier murder? Was someone else killed earlier and the body misidentified? How can one woman die twice?
The story comes to us in the shifting third person perspectives of various characters, but mostly from Jan Talantire’s point of view.