A Double Coffin

HISTORY AND DESTINY

He may have seen more than ninety years, but former British Prime Minister Richard Lavender still has the political savvy to know when things need handling quickly and discreetly. Hence his summons to Commander John Coffin of London's Second City police. There is murder in Lavender's past. His father was a serial killer. And the ex-PM wants to put matters right, nearly three-quarters of a century later.

But when a journalist investigating Lavender is murdered, past and present collide with dark intent. Crimes both old and new insinuate themselves into this case, which in the end proves what Coffin already knows: that the past never leaves us--it is buried, only to resurface in shocking, surprising and sometimes menacing ways.