The Pledge

'A book everybody should read' Jonathan Coe 'Powerful and compelling' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Jaw-dropping' Crime Review 'As terse and assured as the best of Simenon' Spectator The brilliant Inspector Matthäi is haunted by the case of a young girl brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest. Even after a man is arrested and confesses to the crime, Matthäi is convinced the real killer is still out there. He makes a promise to the girl's mother: he will stop at nothing to bring the murderer to justice. But Matthäi's pledge becomes an obsession, and soon he finds he is descending into the darkness himself...

'A book everybody should read' Jonathan Coe 'Powerful and compelling' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Jaw-dropping' Crime Review 'As terse and assured as the best of Simenon' Spectator The brilliant Inspector Matthäi is haunted by the case of a young girl brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest. Even after a man is arrested and confesses to the crime, Matthäi is convinced the real killer is still out there. He makes a promise to the girl's mother: he will stop at nothing to bring the murderer to justice. But Matthäi's pledge becomes an obsession, and soon he finds he is descending into the darkness himself...