SimisolaCrown Publishers, 1995 - 327 pages In the quiet Sussex country town of Kingsmarkham, the daughter of Nigerian physician Raymond Akande is missing. "It's probably nothing, " says Dr. Akande to his friend and client Chief Inspector Wexford, whose help he enlists. But the days that follow prove the doctor dreadfully wrong. A young woman is found murdered not Melanie, but the last person to have seen and spoken to her. A second woman's body is discovered, again not Melanie's, but like her, young and black. A third woman turns up beaten and unconscious; like the others, she is of Nigerian origin. As Inspector Wexford's investigation stretches from days into weeks, it becomes his unhappy obligation to counter the hopes of the doctor and his wife. In Wexford's professional opinion, Melanie, like the other young women, has become the victim of a serial killer with a horrifyingly singular objective. |
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... girl's body was that of a missing black girl and he had done so because she was black. The photograph he had of Melanie Akande had not been referred to. The known heights of the missing girl and the dead girl had not been compared. With ...
... girl's body was that of a missing black girl and he had done so because she was black. The photograph he had of Melanie Akande had not been referred to. The known heights of the missing girl and the dead girl had not been compared. With ...
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... girl was missing and a black girl's body had been found but there was no apparent connection between the two. Burden, untroubled by Wexford's scruples and sensibilities, said it ought to be easy enough to identify her now that police ...
... girl was missing and a black girl's body had been found but there was no apparent connection between the two. Burden, untroubled by Wexford's scruples and sensibilities, said it ought to be easy enough to identify her now that police ...
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... girl — what shall we call her? We'd better give her a name." "Yes, okay, but for God's sake don't come up with ... girl . . . ?" "Oh, yes. You don't think this girl — I mean whatshername, Sojourner — you don't think she said something ...
... girl — what shall we call her? We'd better give her a name." "Yes, okay, but for God's sake don't come up with ... girl . . . ?" "Oh, yes. You don't think this girl — I mean whatshername, Sojourner — you don't think she said something ...
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