# The Reckoning

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- Authors: [Rennie Airth](https://www.bookquiver.com/rennie-airth)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-11-19

## Description

Memories of a terrible injustice come back to haunt John Madden, a retired police inspector who maintains a semidetached relationship with Scotland Yard. Though the story begins in the aftermath of World War II, it is an event from the earlier European conflict that sparks off a succession of murders. Madden gets involved when his name appears in a letter left by the first victim. It takes a rise in the body count for him to make the connection with a court martial in which he had defended, unsuccessfully, a soldier accused of desertion . . . Rennie Airth keeps us riveted with a plot rich in memorable characters and high on tension.

## Editions

### The Reckoning

- Publisher: Pan
- ISBN: 978-14-4726-125-4
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2015-11-19
- Language: en_GB

### The Reckoning

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4312-694-2
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2015-02-24
- Language: en_US