Legacy - Jim Napier

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Résumé :
There were three legacies in Sally Beck's brief life. The first was her grandmother's bequest, which allowed Sally to attend an elite girls' school. That was followed by the second, a life-changing event she experienced while a student there. The final legacy was due to Sally's chance encounter, years later, with someone from her past which set in motion a chain of violence no one could have foreseen. When a young woman killed in London traffic is found to be carrying no identification, Detective Inspector Colin McDermott is assigned to figure out who she is and to track down her family so they can be notified. Soon he discovers she had not one but two identities, which concealed a very private life. When the trail leads back to McDermott's alma mater, the detective is faced with the possibility that the young woman was murdered-and whether an old friend and mentor is involved.

Biographie:
An unapologetic Anglophile, Jim Napier has spent considerable time in the UK dating from 1987. After a successful academic career that included teaching crime fiction and creative writing, he turned to writing full time. Since then he has published over six hundred reviews, interviews and articles about crime writers, both in print and on multiple review websites. Along with such notable authors as Louise Penny, Peter James, Sophie Hannah, Simon Brett, Marcia Talley and Rhys Bowen, he contributed to an anthology on the craft of crime writing titled Now Write! Mysteries published by Tarcher/Penguin. Legacy, the first novel in the Colin McDermott Mystery Series, was published in 2017; Ridley's War is the second novel in the series. The third, Family Matters, is slated for release in 2020. jimnapiermysteries.com