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Winner of the inaugural 2006 International CWA Dagger, this dark, sinister and surreal novel follows the life and murder of a Greek opera singer. 'It tantalises from page one' Marcel Berlins, "The Times"
Synopsis
Sophia Simeonidis, a Greek opera singer, wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. A few weeks later, Sophia disappears and nobody worries too much until her body is found burned to ashes in a car. Who killed the opera singer? Her husband, her ex-lover, her best friend?
