In North Kensington three orphaned mixed-race children are bounced from one home to another. The middle child Joel takes care of the youngest, Toby, who isn't quite right. When a local gang threatens Toby, Joel makes a pact with the devil that ends in the murder of Thomas Lynley's wife.
What came before he shot her
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1028 pages
English language
Published Nov. 20, 2006 by HarperLargePrint.
Subjects
- Lynley, Thomas (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Abandoned children -- England -- London -- Fiction
- Male juvenile delinquents -- England -- London -- Fiction
- North Kensington (London, England) -- Social conditions -- Fiction