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Psalm Killer by Chris Petit (1997, Hardcover)

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This is a 1997 hardcover edition of "The Psalm Killer" by Chris Petit. It is the first American edition and has 437 pages. The book is published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group and is written in English. The book is about a psychological mystery and a police procedural. It has a length of 9.6 inches, a height of 1.4 inches, and a width of 6.6 inches. The book weighs 28.1 ounces and is categorized under "Books" and "Books & Magazines".

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679451269

ISBN-139780679451266

eBay Product ID (ePID)468292

Product Key Features

Book TitlePsalm Killer

Number of Pages437 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, General

Publication Year1997

GenreFiction

AuthorChris Petit

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight28.1 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-039157

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisIt is 1985: Detective Chief Inspector Cross of Belfast's Royal Ulster Constabulary is wondering, again, if he should leave the force. He's been there for twelve years, but he's a more adept loner than he is a careerist. He's British and Catholic, neither of which earns him the trust of his Irish-Protestant colleagues, or the civilian contacts essential to his job. And how effective can any officer of the law be in a country grown inured to the facts and effects of decades of violent hostilities? Still, Cross is unfailingly compelled by murder - the violence almost dazzling in its stark contrast to the bloodlessness of his own existence, the who and why behind a crime an undeniable driving force in him. Especially at this moment: in a city where a death was easier to arrange than crossing the road, DCI Cross has spotted the gruesome handiwork of a serial killer. It might be that Cross has simply stumbled on someone else who's made sectarian violence a vocation, but this killer is cutting across political and religious lines - and with a viciousness reminiscent of a particularly grisly episode in the recent, tortuous history of the city. Cross has to fight his superiors to be allowed to focus attention where he thinks it's necessary, and even when they agree, they handicap him (or so they think) by assigning a young policewoman to the case. But WPC Westerby is a recent transfer from the sex abuse unit, so there isn't much she hasn't seen; and her keenness, intelligence and ambition make her quickly indispensable to Cross. Because as they close in on the killer, he seems to retreat further and further behind a layered identity and motive. As they uncover more and more about him, theyuncover, as well, more and more of the maze of secret, paranoid alliances, backroom deals and sanctioned treachery hidden just below the surface of the conflict. And even as the situation is growing increasingly clear to them, they are being drawn, perhaps inextricably, into a nig

LC Classification NumberPS3566.E7738P78 1997