Maxim Chattam. Pan Macmillan UK. British-occupied Cairo, Several young children had disappeared and were then found, horribly mutilated, in the tombs just outside the city. British inspector Jeremy Matheson follows the trail of a monster, which takes him into the depths of underground Cairo, as well as deep into his own tortured past. Mont-Saint-Michel, Marion has taken refuge in the wind-swept and remote monastery located on the west coast of France.
When she finds a diary dating from , she is inexorably pulled into the past. Soon she feels she is being watched, and taunting notes and riddles urge her to give back what is not hers. Could one of the brothers or sisters at the monastery be behind this? Media The Cairo Diary. Save Not today. Could one of the brothers or sisters at the monastery be behind this? And who is the old man Marion befriends? The two stories intertwine and culminate in an absolutely baffling climax in this cinematic bestselling thriller from France.
After stumbling across a political coverup, Marion, a clerical employee at a Paris morgue, takes refuge in remote Mont-Saint-Michel. There, while inventorying some books, Marion discovers bound within the covers of Poe's Narrative of A. Gordon Pym the diary of an English detective, Jeremy Matheson, describing his probe into a series of sadistic child murders in Cairo.
Marion becomes obsessed with the diary and in finding the solution to the old case. Strangely, the third-person diary selections include the thoughts of characters who could not have conveyed them to Matheson. This oddity will raise the suspicions of astute readers, who will be less than shocked by the twist ending.
In that subgenre featuring a modern character who seeks the truth about a past crime through study of a secret document, this effort comes up short.
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