A Question of Identity

[Library Edition Audiobook CD in sturdy Vinyl case.] [Read by Steven Pacey] Susan Hill -- the Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awards -- returns with a gripping mystery ''eagerly awaited by all aficionados'' (P. D. James). The particularly unpleasant murder of a very old woman in a housing project rocks the town of Lafferton. The murderer has left a distinctive 'sign' on the body and at the scene of the crime. A couple of weeks later, a similar murder occurs, and a month or so later, so does another. -- Initial investigations reveal that the mysterious 'sign' was the calling card of a suspect who was charged with several murders in the northwest of the country, tried but acquitted on the grounds of insufficient evidence.