Against the backdrop of 1970s European politics in Brussels, two men are murdered: Slater, a journalist, and a politician. Slater had an autistic daughter who witnessed both murders. Bannerman, a journalist from Scotland who was staying with the Slaters at the time, feels compelled to find out who ordered the murders. This is one of Peter May’s early novels, and it is already engaging and extremely well plotted, unfolding slowly until the end. Really enjoyable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“For the first time Bannerman felt compelled to speak. \u2018If you deny the right to life of any one man, simply because he does not fit with your idea of what is good for all, then you deny the rights of all men.\u2019 He shook his head. \u2018And what gives you the right to play God?\u2019”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Listened to as an audiobook<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Against the backdrop of 1970s European politics in Brussels, two men are murdered: Slater, a journalist, and a politician. Slater had an autistic daughter who witnessed both murders. Bannerman, a journalist from Scotland who was staying with the Slaters at the time, feels compelled to find out who ordered the murders. This is one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[270],"tags":[42,59,79],"class_list":["post-19250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2025","tag-childhood","tag-crime","tag-empathy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jonas-jaeken-BWzVzrKVAl8-unsplash-scaled-e1757896121174.jpg?fit=1707%2C1450&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20019,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19250\/revisions\/20019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}