What does it take to make a man kill?

All eyes are on famous prosecutor Teodor Szacki when he investigates a skeleton discovered at a construction site in the idyllic Polish city of Olsztyn. Old bones come as no shock to anyone in this part of Poland, but it turns out these remains are fresh, the flesh chemically removed.

Szacki questions the dead man’s wife, only to be left with a suspicion she’s hiding something. Then another victim surfaces—a violent husband, alive but maimed—giving rise to a theory: someone’s targeting domestic abusers. And as new clues bring the murderer closer to those Szacki holds dear, he begins to understand the terrible rage that drives people to murder.

From acclaimed Polish crime writer Zygmunt Miloszewski comes a gritty, atmospheric page-turner that poses the question, what drives a sane man to kill?

Zygmunt Miloszewski is an award-winning Polish novelist and screenwriter. His first two mysteries featuring prosecutor Teodor Szacki, Entanglement and A Grain of Truth (both translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and published by Bitter Lemon Press) have received international recognition, making him the #1 bestselling author in Poland and one of the world’s best-known contemporary Polish writers. Miloszewski has won the Polityka Passport for Polish literature. He’s also twice won the High Calibre Award for the best Polish crime novel and earned two nominations to the French Prix du Polar Européen for the best European crime novel.

Antonia Lloyd-Jones is a prize-winning literary translator (The 2009 and 2014 Found in Translation Award) working from Polish to English. She has been a mentor for the British Centre for Literary Translation’s Mentoring Programme annually since 2012. She is currently Co-Chair of the Translators’ Association of the Society of Authors. She was a judge of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Rage
By Zygmunt Miłoszewski
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Published by Amazon Crossing
ISBN: 978-1503935860
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