Last Rites

A Northern England cop tries to track down an escaped convict: "One of the finest police procedural series around" (Publishers Weekly).

It has been thirteen years since Michael Preston killed his father, and now his mother is dead too. Halfway through his twenty-four year sentence, Michael is a docile prisoner whom the warden doesn't mind letting out for an afternoon to pay his respects. Michael goes to the funeral under armed guard, and when the time comes to return to jail, he gives the...