Used book – The Dark Room, Minette Walters

London, winter. A country on strike in the rain. Piles of rubbish accumulate in the streets... One November evening, somewhere in the city, a Black woman dies in a gutter. They called her Mad Annie, her neighbors despised her. Her death would surely go unnoticed if a young woman, Mrs. Ranelagh, didn't insist on proving it was murder. But why this persistence? Why does her husband refuse to say what happened that night? Why do doctors and police claim they know little or nothing about Annie's life, and hardly more about the circumstances of her death? Why would a woman devote twenty years of her life to tracking down the truth if she didn't have a very personal reason for doing so... True or false leads, laid out by the formidable Minette Walters, keep the reader captivated to the very end, fascinated by this snake in the shadows...