Hanging Hill - Brossura

Hayder, Mo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802120857 ISBN 13: 9780802120854

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 2013

Riassunto

In the aftermath of a popular Bath teen's savage murder, Harley-riding police detective Zoe Benedict urges her superiors to think outside the box in order to solve the crime; while her divorced sister, Sally, takes a housekeeping job for a wealthy entrepreneur who behaves in increasingly suspicious ways. By the best-selling author of Gone.

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L'autore:

Mo Hayder has worked as a filmmaker, Tokyo nightclub hostess, and English language teacher. She is the winner of the Edgar® Award for Best Novel for Gone and the 2011 Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library award for outstanding body of work. She is also the author of Birdman, The Treatment, The Devil of Nanking, Pig Island, Ritual, and Skin. She lives in England.

Product Description:

[Hayder] has in no way lost her ability to shock, thrill, entertain and occasionally torture us with her use of words. . . . A chiller to the very end. Hayder deals with Britain at its grittiest. Peter Millar, "The Times" (London) Mo Hayder is a world-class author of gritty, gripping page-turners, winner of the Dagger in the Library from the Crime Writers Association for outstanding body of work. With her latest novel, she ratchets up the terror to fever pitch. Fast-paced and addictive, "Hanging Hill" centers around a pair of estranged sistersone a cop, one a coddled wife fallen on hard timesand the gruesome homicide of a teenage beauty, which exposes the nightmares that lurk at the edges of our safe domestic lives. One morning in picture-perfect Bath, England, a teenage girl s body is found on the towpath of a canal. Lorne Woodbeautiful, popular, and apparently the victim of a disturbingly brutal murder. Why was she on the towpath alone late at night? Zoe BenedictHarley-riding police detective, independent to a faultis convinced the department head needs to look beyond the usual domestic motives to solve the case, but no one wants to hear it, especially from the department s black sheep. Meanwhile, Zoe s sister, Sallyrecently divorced and in dire financial straits, supporting a daughter who was friends with the dead girlhas begun working as a housekeeper for a rich entrepreneur who seems less eccentric and more repugnant, and possibly dangerous. And why are his sinister associates showing up at her daughter s school? When Zoe s investigation turns up evidence that Lorne s attempts to break into modeling had delivered her into the world of webcam girls and amateur porn, a crippling secret from Zoe s past seems determined to emerge. All roads seem to be leading to one conclusion: there s something very wrong at the house on Hanging Hill. But will Zoe and Sally put their differences aside and fit all the pieces together before it s too late? "Hanging Hill" is a master

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• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0802120857
• ISBN 13: 9780802120854
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 428