After decades in prison for crimes gruesomely familiar to everyone in England, a murderer has finally died of natural causes, no less notorious in death than she was in life. Billy Tyler, a career policeman, hasbeen assigned the task of guarding her body in the hospital morgue. But alone on a graveyard shift his wife begged him not accept, Billy has occasion to contemplate the various turns his life has takenand to discover why it is that on this dark night of the soul the reviled murderer seems to speak to him directly. "Death of a Murderer "is a gripping novel of crime, punishment, fear, andtemptation. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
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After decades in prison for crimes gruesomely familiar to everyone in England, a murderer has finally died of natural causes, no less notorious in death than she was in life. Billy Tyler, a career policeman, hasbeen assigned the task of guarding her body in the hospital morgue. But alone on a graveyard shift his wife begged him not accept, Billy has occasion to contemplate the various turns his life has takenand to discover why it is that on this dark night of the soul the reviled murderer seems to speak to him directly. "Death of a Murderer "is a gripping novel of crime, punishment, fear, andtemptation. "From the Trade Paperback edition."