"The Hand" draws readers into a Corsican murder mystery as Judge Bermutier recounts his most disturbing unsolved case. When a reclusive Englishman, Sir John Rowell, is found strangled in his locked home, the only clue is a severed human finger clenched between his teeth — torn from the dried, chained hand mounted on his parlor wall. As Bermutier pieces together the dead man's final weeks of mounting terror, the question of whether justice, vengeance, or something far darker was responsible refuses to surrender a satisfying answer.

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