All Roads Leadeth
Peter Turnbull. Severn House Publishers, $26.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-7278-5970-9
The unearthing of a female skeleton puts the two Yorkshire cops on the trail of an unrepentant killer.
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Reviewed on: 07/01/2003
Genre: Fiction
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