Summary
Michael Gruber: The Valley of Bones
Jimmy Paz, the hero of Gruber's first novel, The Return of the Night, will encounter another case that will test his common sense and faith in reality as other people understand it. In the hotel room from the balcony of which the alleged Arab oil merchant Jabir ai-Muwalid just flew out, Detective Paz will find a certain Emmylou Dideroff chatting pleasantly with Saint Catherine of Siena. Emmylou is a postulant of the Society of Nurses of the Blood of Christ, who has just arrived from Pribor, a war-torn province in Sudan. Jabir al-Muwalid is a colonel in the Sudanese army, responsible for numerous massacres in Pribor. As far as Paz is concerned, the case is closed. The motive, the weapon, the victim and the perpetrator have been identified.
After placing Emmylou in an insane asylum, Paz will try to forget the whole case, but of course some insignificant little things will not give him peace, so against his will he will try to piece together the fragments of the life of the unusual woman he arrested. What he and psychologist Lorna Wise will discover goes beyond the probable, but Paz, who has already faced the unimaginable, is ready to accept such a possibility.
With his second novel, Valley of Bones, Michael Gruber confirmed that his place among the masters of thrillers belonged to him earlier when he wrote under another name as a "ghost writer".
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