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Flesh & Blood: A Frank Elder Mystery (Frank Elder Mysteries)
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Flesh & Blood: A Frank Elder Mystery (Frank Elder Mysteries) Paperback - 2006

by Harvey, John

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Detective Inspector Frank Elder can't escape the past. With cryptic messages on seaside postcards and a few purposefully planted clues, a killer is drawing Elder inexorably into the very heart of a criminal matter.

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  • Title Flesh & Blood: A Frank Elder Mystery (Frank Elder Mysteries)
  • Author Harvey, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Thus
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William Morrow Paperbacks, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A
  • Date 2006-07-03
  • Bookseller's Inventory # H17K-00870
  • ISBN 9780156031813 / 0156031817
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, England
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005036317
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Retirement has not come easy for Detective Inspector Frank Elder. He's fled to a solitary existence on the Cornish coast, but he can't escape the past. Susan Blacklock would be thirty now. But fourteen years ago she disappeared, and the case has gone unsolved. Not that Elder hadn't had his suspects. And now, with one of them out on parole, Elder is compelled to return to the seaside scene of the crime. Shortly thereafter, pretty Emma Harrison goes missing.

Just as Elder's knowledge becomes crucial to the official investigation of this disquieting case, he unwittingly becomes vital to its perpetration. For with cryptic messages on seaside postcards and a few purposefully planted clues, the killer is drawing Elder inexorably into the very heart of the criminal matter. Elder's teenage daughter is already there.

In the first in the Frank Elder series, before Ash & Bone and Darkness & Light, John Harvey sets in motion the events from which Elder's family will never recover.

From the jacket flap

Fifteen years ago Susan Blacklock disappeared. Although Detective Inspector Frank Elder has taken early retirement, the case still plagues his mind. Prime suspects Shane Donald and Alan McKiernan were convicted a year later of the brutal rape and murder of a young girl, and now that Shane has been granted parole, Elder feels compelled to revisit his past.
Then Shane disappears and another young girl is murdered. Elder's involvement is now crucial. Taunted by postcards from the killer, an increasingly desperate Elder battles to keep his estranged family from being drawn into the very heart of the crime.

Media reviews

PRAISE FOR FLESH & BLOOD

"A superb mystery--excruciatingly suspenseful, rich in character and all too real in its depiction of the horrific possibilities lurking in the margins of the mundane."--The Washington Post Book World

"Flesh and Blood is one more vindication for those of us who have long known we've been riding with a master of the craft. John Harvey is lights out one of the best."--Michael Connelly