Absolution

"Highly literate and entirely engrossing. One of the year's best literary thrillers."
--The Washington Post

It's twenty years since police detective Alan McAlpine has set foot in Patrickhill Station--and more than twenty years since he fell forever in love with the mute, faceless woman he called Anna as she lay dying in Glasgow's Western Infirmary. Daily he'd watched over her, and they had begun to communicate with each other, she by moving her wounded fingers. Her fingers could not tell the ...