Shooting Star - Rilegato

Temple, Peter

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ISBN 10: 1847245900 ISBN 13: 9781847245908

Casa editrice: Quercus Publishing, 2008

Riassunto

Anne Carson, fifteen, beautiful, and wayward is abducted. Her rich family has closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, ex-soldier and sacked police hostage negotiator. They want him to deliver the ransom money to the kidnappers. Frank wants them to call in the law, but the family refuses, since police bungling nearly cost the life of another Carson child kidnapped years before. But are the two kidnappings connected? And is greed the motivation? Revenge? Or could it be something else? To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief. As Frank feverishly searches for suspects in the web of Carson family businesses and deals, marriages and indiscretions, rivalries and intrigues, he knows that if his instincts are wrong, the girl will surely die.

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Recensione:

Characterisation, dialogue and the quality of the prose are all top-class - Sunday Telegraph (Sunday Telegraph)

Discovering Peter Temple has been the highlight of my year - Mark Billingham (Mark Billingham)

Great locations, hard-nosed dialogue and a twisting plot combine to create superb entertainment - Evening Standard (Evening Standard)

Peter Temple is an addiction. Read one book and you want to read them all. Now - Val McDermid (Val McDermid)

L'autore:

Five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, Peter Temple is Australia's most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. He is the author of four Jack Irish novels: Bad Debts (1996), Black Tide (1999), Dead Point (2000) and White Dog (2003). He has also written three other standalone novels: An Iron Rose (1998), Shooting Star (1999) and In the Evil Day (2002). He lives in Ballarat, Australia, with his family.

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• Editore: Quercus Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847245900
• ISBN 13: 9781847245908
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 320