The Redeemed

Matthew Hall

Apr 2011 · Pan Macmillan

About this ebook

Step into the world of Coroner Jenny Cooper in The Redeemed, the gripping third instalment in Matthew Hall's CWA Gold Dagger shortlisted series.

A mystery from the past. A deadly secret in the present.

The body of a dead man is discovered in an overgrown cemetery in Bristol, the sign of the cross gouged into his flesh. At first it seems to coroner Jenny Cooper that all the evidence points to a horrific, if routine, suicide.

Then an enigmatic young priest, Father Lucas Starr, arrives on Jenny’s doorstep, entreating her to hold an inquest into the death of Eva Donaldson, a high profile political campaigner whose past life continued to haunt her. A young man, Paul Craven, has recently been sentenced for Eva’s brutal murder. But despite Craven’s conviction and the evidence against him, Father Lucas is convinced of the man’s innocence.

Jenny’s lone quest for justice will take her to the dark heart of an establishment who wish to silence her, and on an inner journey to confront ghosts that have haunted her for a lifetime. For Jenny Cooper answers to no one but the dead . . .

The Redeemed is followed by the fourth book in the Coroner Jenny Cooper series, The Flight.

The Jenny Cooper novels have been adapted into a hit TV series, Coroner, made for CBC and NBC Universal starring Serinda Swan and Roger Cross.

Ratings and reviews

I have recently attempted to read this book. I am very disappointed with it. I found that the punctuation was terrible throughout. there were no apostrophe's through out the book, this made reading extremely difficult. As a sample, the one that stood out was, "shed gone through to the office". This is not an exact quote but an example. when this carries on through the entire book I became fed up and ceased reading it. I have in my google library "the flight" by the same author. If the poor punctuation should persist in this book I shall be very disgruntled. I will not be buying any further books by M.R. Hall if this is the case

About the author

Matthew (formerly M. R.) Hall is a screenwriter and producer and former criminal barrister, a profession he left due to a constitutional inability to prosecute. Educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Worcester College, Oxford, he lives in the Wye Valley in Monmouthshire with his wife, journalist Patricia Carswell, and two sons. Aside from writing, his main passion is the preservation and planting of woodland. In his spare moments, he is mostly to be found amongst trees. His books in the Coroner Jenny Cooper series include The Coroner, The Disappeared, The Redeemed, The Flight, The Chosen Dead, The Burning and A Life to Kill.