NEW: From Doon With Death & A New Lease of Death (9319)

'Love and Death,' said chief inspector Wexford.  'Those were the only two sensational things that ever happened to Margaret Parsons, love and death.  The thing is they both happened in my district.'

The police new all about Margaret Parsons' life, and, by the look of it, it was very dull.  Margaret Parsons had been a 'good' woman.  Religious, old-fashioned and respectable, her life had been as spotless and ordinary as her home, as unexciting and dependable as her marriage.

But it was not Margaret PArsons' life that had interested Wexford.  It was her death.  She had been a predictable and ordinary woman - but now she had met a death of passion and violence for which there seemed neither motive nor clue

A New Lease of Death

Of course chief inspector Wexford remembered the Painter case.  It might have seemed a bit run of the mill to some, but to Wexford it had been remarkable - because it was the first murder he'd ever handled on his own.  It had certainly been remarkable to Painter, because it hanged him.  There had been no real mystery, no tricky little red herrings.  painter had done it all right.  There had never been any doubt in anyones mind.  Until now.

Over fifteen years later, the case is to be dug up again.  For some the past has only been shallowly buried and for others it hadn't been buried at all.  But now there is someone who wants it retraced and re-examined.  Someone who wants history changed, the universe disturbed - and chief inspector Wexford proved wrong.