Snart kommer boken som jag har längtat efter i flera år känns det som. Och det stämmer nog ganska bra för det är nästan fem år sen författaren Rennie Airth gav ifrån sig en bok och jag hade nästan börjat tro att det inte skulle bli fler. För Rennie Airth börjar bli till åren. Men i juni kommer den fjärde boken om kommissarie John Madden, The Reckoning (det vänstra omslaget enligt Adlibris och Waterstones). Boken ges också ut av annat förlag i augusti (omslaget till höger) kunde inte låta bli att ta med det. Lånat bägge omslagen i cyberrymden. 

Så här skriver Adlibris om boken:
”The Second World War has ended, leaving a bruised and fragile peace. But this tranquillity is threatened when a shocking murder takes place in the Sussex countryside. Before long, police experts discover a link to another, earlier, killing hundreds of miles away …While Scotland Yard detective Billy Styles struggles to find a link between these two murders, a strange twist of fate brings former Detective Inspector John Madden into the investigations. As the victim count rises it becomes clear that to catch this serial killer Madden, Styles and young policewoman Detective-Constable Lily Poole must act quickly. But Madden remains haunted by the mysteries at the heart of the case. Why was his name in a letter the second target had been penning, just before he died? Could the real clue to these perplexing murders lie within the victims’ pasts? And within his own? With this stunning, atmospheric crime novel teeming with twists and moving between the 1950s, the First and Second World Wars, Rennie Airth, the author of River of Darkness, The Blood-Dimmed Tide and The Dead of Winter presents his greatest and most compelling novel yet.”
Böckerna om John Madden:
Mörkrets flod/River of Darkness (1999)
Blodröd våg/Blood-Dimmed Tied (2003)
Vinterdöd/The Dead of Winter (2009)
The Reckoning 2014