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The shape of snakes

November 1978. Somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Her passing would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds her and who believes that Annie was murdered.

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  • "Twenty years ago, M. Ranelagh found her Graham Road neighbor dying in a gutter. "Mad Annie" Butts, long persecuted for being black and for suffering from Tourette's syndrome, had had her skull shattered. So deeply did Annie's death--ruled an accident--affect M. that she has spent the last two decades secretly amassing proof that it was murder, and that the murderer lived in Graham Road. Her collection of evidence faithfully teases out the serpentine deceptions--and self-deceptions--woven into Annie's death; husband Sam, neighbors, friends, family, police, all are grist for the mill of M.'s occasionally unscrupulous research:I suppose everyone has a pet subject that triggers their anger--with me it was my mother's wicked talent for stirring, with Sam it was his fear of Mad Annie and everything her death represented: the mask of respectability that overlaid the hatreds and the lies. He always hoped, I think, in a rather free interpretation of the karma principle, that if he refused to look beneath a surface then the surface was the reality. But he could never rid himself of the fear that he was wrong."
  • "Een vrouw probeert de waarheid over de dood van een alleenstaande zwarte vrouw twintig jaar eerder te achterhalen."
  • "During the winter of discontent, a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Her passing would have gone unmourned and unnoticed except the woman who finds her believes she was murdered. Why is Mrs. Ranelagh so convinced it was murder?"
  • "November 1978. Somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Her passing would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds her and who believes that Annie was murdered."
  • "November 1978. Somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Her passing would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds her and who believes that Annie was murdered."@en
  • "November 1978. Britain is on strike, the dead lie unburied, rubbish piles in the streets and somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. A young woman who finds her believes the dead woman was murdered."@en

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  • "Mystery fiction"
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  • "The shape of snakes"
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