The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill

The Lamplighter

Anthony O'Neill

308 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction historical mystery thriller mysterious slow-paced
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Twenty years after a girl is handed over to a shadowy man claiming to be her father, she reappears in the wake of a series of grisly murders, prompting near-retirement Inspector Carus Groves and disillusioned metaphysics professor Thomas McKnight ...

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