The Missing Piece

In 1995 an American billionaire and media mogul - Charles Wallerstein - decides to revive interst in the jigsaw by setting up the International Speed Puzzle Circuit . One by one the players on the circuit are murdered. Each victim has a limb removed, although the killer leaves in its place a polaroid picture of another person s limb. The police assume the collected photos will confirm the identity of the assassin. They need to find the vital missing piece, that philosophical element without which the whole of the rest of the puzzle has no meaning. Antoine Bello's prizewinning detective novel is a satirical, comic 50-piece jigsaw puzzle the solution to which lies in the reader's hands. Each piece of the puzzle, each short chapter, is a clue, written in its own unique style.