Coffin's Games Author:Gwendoline Butler Following a terrorist bombing, the battered corpse of a woman is found in a house on Percy Street in London. Her fingertips have been removed and her face made unrecognizable by a sadistic killer. The only clue to her identity is a handbag, and the owner of the handbag is Stella Pinero, the beloved actress wife of Chief Commander John Coffin. S... more »everal things complicate the investigation into the murder. Coffin refuses to believe that the remains could be Stella's. In addition, Coffin does not welcome the uncomfortable questions posed by Chief Superintendent Archie Young about the tempestuous Stella's personal life. And all the while the secretive Inspector Lodge of the Terrorist Squad harbors suspicions of his own. When a second body is discovered, Coffin finds himself drawn into a nightmarish game. He is forced to confront death and treachery in his very own back yard. And the answers he finds could destroy his peaceful life as he knows it.« less