In the Presence of the Enemy - Brossura

George, Elizabeth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0553576089 ISBN 13: 9780553576085

Casa editrice: Bantam Books, 1997

Riassunto

When a young girl vanishes in London without a trace, her MP mother becomes convinced that the kidnapper is the child's father, until Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers uncover a web of deception, betrayal, and death. Reissue. (A PBS Mystery! presentation, airing August 2004, starring Nathaniel Parker & Sharon Small) (Mystery)

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Recensione:

"Combining the eloquence of P.D. James with a story John Grisham would envy, George serves up a splendid, unsettling novel."—People

"Elizabeth George reigns as queen of the mystery genre....the Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published."—Entertainment Weekly

"Rich...and addictively readable...elegant and unsettling, classy and caustic...a page-turner with unusual breadth and generous depth." —USA Today

"Elizabeth George only gets better...another superb British mystery."—Daily News, New York

"A masterpiece."—Winston-Salem Journal

"Tough, breathtaking."—Cosmopolitan

"A dazzler."—New Yorker

L'autore:

Elizabeth George’s first novel, A Great Deliverance, was honored with the Anthony and Agatha Best First Novel Awards and received the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. Her third novel, Well-Schooled in Murder, was awarded the prestigious German prize for suspense fiction, the MIMI. A Suitable Vengeance, For the Sake of Elena, Missing Joseph, Playing for the Ashes, In the Presence of the Enemy, Deception on His Mind, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner, A Traitor to Memory, and I, Richard were international bestsellers. Elizabeth George divides her time between Huntington Beach, California, and London. Her novels are currently being dramatized by the BBC.
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• Editore: Bantam Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0553576089
• ISBN 13: 9780553576085
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile