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A stunning debut book that unravels the invisible storyline behind a institution shooting
It ought to be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a just lately hired history teacher, walked into a institution set up with a gun and murdered three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself. It was a tragedy that could not have been predicted. Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Yet as Detective Inspector Lucia May- really the only woman in her high-testosterone office in the Offender Investigations Department-begins to patch together the testimonies of the many witnesses, an uglier and more technical picture emerges, dialling into question the innocence of others. But nobody, including Lucia's supervisor, is interested.
As the pressure to close the truth creates and her fellow workers' sexism takes a sinister move, Lucia begins to understand that she's more in common with the killer than she may have thought, and she becomes determined to expose the reality. Brilliantly interweaving the witnesses' accounts with Lucia's own perspective, A Thousand Slices is a narrative tour de force from a formidable new speech in fiction.
