Margins
Purgatory book cover
Purgatory
2019
First Published
4.25
Average Rating
360
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The second novel in the acclaimed, best-selling Euro-crime series that began with the Hercule Poirot Award winner, Absinthe. If the world will end in flames, who is stoking the fire? Walter Eekhaut (rhymes with “stakeout”), the veteran chief inspector from the Brussels police force who has a problem with authority, remains in Amsterdam, where he was dispatched to assist the Dutch security service. When his boss, Chief Superintendent Alexandra Dewaal, receives a tip from one of her informants, the two find themselves across the border tramping in the Belgian Ardennes on a frigid January day. What they discover is macabre and seven charred human bodies, attached to tall stakes with chains, in an almost perfect circle. From the look of it, these people were burned alive in some sort of ritual. On the wall of a cabin, Eekhaut and Dewaal make out an enigmatic message written in "This World seems to last Forever. But it is merely the Dream of a Sleeper." Similar events occur elsewhere in Europe as well as Africa, where Eekhaut's new girlfriend has gone on assignment for an international aid agency operating in Somalia. There have long been stories of an apocalyptic religious cult, The Church of Supreme Purification, along with a more shadowy militant offshoot. Are they connected to these events? Is this some conspiracy to cleanse human society by fire, or is there an even more sinister explanation?

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Author

Guido Eekhaut
Guido Eekhaut
Author · 18 books
Guido Eekhaut writes crime novels, speculative fiction and Young Adult science fiction. He was formerly a journalist and futurist, and worked in the financial sector. His books and stories have appeared in several languages, from Dutch and English to Chinese. His crime book 'Absinthe' received the 2009 Hercule Poirot Award. He was twice shortlisted for the Dutch Golden Noose crime award.
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