Blood From Stone Maddalen Vaglio Pushkin Press FV|FYT Hardback 2024 After a year of brutal

After a year of brutal civil war

lies dead in her comfortable middle-class home in a nice

And when a disgraced FBI agent gets in touch things take an even darker turn

But now she's traveling solo

They say old habits die hard

Blood From Stone Maddalen Vaglio Pushkin Press FV|FYT Hardback 2024 After a year of brutalMarianne Shearer is at the height of her career, a successful barrister, respected by her peers and revered by her clients. So why has she killed herself? Peter Friel, a somewhat humbler lawyer, thinks that something about the case doesn't make sense and so he probes deeper into Marianne's life and the reasons for her death.