The Old Silent

Dans une auberge du Yorkshire, Nell abat froidement son mari sous les yeux du commissaire Jury et remet aussitôt son pistolet au policier. Puisque la meurtrière est arrêtée, l'affaire semble close. Mais quel était donc le mobile du crime? Set in West Yorkshire and Cornwall, this story challenges Martha Grimes's major character, Superintendent Richard Jury, to find out the real reason that a perfectly sane and patient wife should murder her husband ten years after their only child has been kidnapped and presumably killed Superintendent Richard Jury investigates the death of Roger Healy at the Old Silent Inn, an investigation hampered by the silence of the dead man's wife