The Distant Echo - Brossura

McDermid, Val

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312994834 ISBN 13: 9780312994839

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Twenty-five years after an unsolved rape and murder, four best friends, having been falsely accused of the crime, find themselves targeted by someone who still believes that they are guilty, prompting one of them to launch a desperate search for the real killer. Reprint.

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L'autore

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community and then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years and is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester. In 1995, she won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Her most recent novel, A Place of Execution, won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and named aNew York Times Notable Book of the Year.

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Praised for her ingenious surprises and masterful twists, Anthony Award-winner Val McDermid has raised the standard for suspense. Now comes her most absorbing and seductive thriller to date-a masterful novel of murder and retribution that will haunt long into the night...

An Unsolved Crime...
It was a winter morning in 1978, that the body of a young barmaid was discovered in the snow banks of a Scottish cemetery. The only suspects in her brutal murder were the four young men who found her: Alex Gilbey and his three best friends. With no evidence but her blood
on their hands, no one was ever charged.

That Was Never Forgotten...
Twenty five years later, the Cold Case file on Rosie Duff has been reopened. For Alex and his friends, the investigation has also opened old wounds, haunting memories-and new fears. For a stranger has emerged from the shadows with his own ideas about justice. And revenge.

Or Forgiven.
When two of Alex's friends die under suspicious circumstances, Alex knows that he and his innocent family are the next targets. And there's only way to save them: return to the cold-blooded past and uncover the startling truth about the murder. For there lies the identity of an avenging killer...

"One of my favorite authors." -Sara Paretsky

"McDermid is the best we've got." -The New York Times

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312994834
• ISBN 13: 9780312994839
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese