The Pledge

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'A book everybody should read' Jonathan Coe 'Powerful and compelling' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Jaw-dropping' Crime Review 'As terse and assured as the best of Simenon' Spectator The brilliant Inspector Matthäi is haunted by the case of a young girl brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest. Even after a man is arrested and confesses to the crime, Matthäi is convinced the real killer is still out there. He makes a promise to the girl's mother: he will stop at nothing to bring the murderer to justice. But Matthäi's pledge becomes an obsession, and soon he finds he is descending into the darkness himself...