Touched by the Dead [Import] [Hardcover]

Robert Barnard (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins; First Edition edition (1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0002326841
• ISBN-13: 978-0002326841
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,625,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars It Kept Me Entertained, August 26, 2007

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Robert Barnard, currently lives with his wife in Yorkshire. He was born in Essex on 23 November, 1936. Educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College, Oxford, taking his Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1972, he spent many years as a distinguished academic while establishing himself as one of today's most distinguished crime writers. His fascination with the pure detective story is evident in his many novels.

It is May, spring is in the air and everything in the garden is rosy for Colin Pinnock, at least that is how it seems to him. A stunning election victory followed by a new government and a junior office for himself. Bit amid all the congratulations that he receives there is one hostile message, asking: "Who do you think you are?"

Is this merely a jealous rival or even somebody trying to make sure his feet stay on the ground. Or does the statement have a more sinister meaning? Indeed' who is he, really? and who were his biological parents? As Colin begins to investigate these question he is led back to an old political scandal. Events from the past begin to intertwine with the present and Colin finds himself the object of a series of incidents that at first threaten to affect his career, but later actual threaten his very being . . .