Blacklands
The addictive debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author
(Sprache: Englisch)
Tagtäglich steht Steven Lamb's Grossmutter am Fenster und wartet auf ihren vermeintlich ermordeten Sohn, dessen Leiche jedoch nie gefunden wurde. Also sucht der Zwölfjährige seinen Onkel: Jeden Tag nach der Schule gräbt er Löcher in Exmoor. In letzter...
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Tagtäglich steht Steven Lamb's Grossmutter am Fenster und wartet auf ihren vermeintlich ermordeten Sohn, dessen Leiche jedoch nie gefunden wurde. Also sucht der Zwölfjährige seinen Onkel: Jeden Tag nach der Schule gräbt er Löcher in Exmoor. In letzter Verzweiflung schreibt der Junge einen Brief an Arnold Avery, den Serienkiller, der auch den damals Elfjährigen auf dem Gewissen haben soll. Ein gefährliches Katz-und-Maus-Spiel entspinnt sich zwischen Steven und dem gelangweilten Massenmörder.
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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP'Extraordinarily powerful and evocative . . . will leave you breathless.' Daily Mirror
VOTED CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR when it was first released, and still the most gripping, powerful thriller debut you will read this year.
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Steven Lamb is 12 when he writes his first letter . . . to a serial killer
Every day after school, whilst his classmates swap football stickers, twelve-year-old Steven digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. His uncle disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery - but his body has never been found.
Steven's Nan does not believe her son is dead. She still waits for him to come home, standing bitter guard at the front window while her family fragments around her. Steven is determined to heal the widening cracks between them before it's too late - even if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son.
But when Steven realises this is an impossible task, he crafts a careful letter to Arnold Avery in prison. And there begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game between a desperate child and a bored psychopath . . .
Readers love Blacklands:
'A dark, gripping story . . . full of tension' *****
'A truly chilling and disturbing read' *****
'An intelligent crime thriller that seeps with atmosphere' *****
*Belinda Bauer's pulse-pounding new thriller, EXIT, is out now*
Autoren-Porträt von Belinda Bauer
Belinda Bauer
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Belinda Bauer
- 2010, 368 Seiten, Masse: 12,8 x 19,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Transworld
- ISBN-10: 0552158844
- ISBN-13: 9780552158848
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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"With this extraordinarily powerful and provocative debut, Belinda Bauer has shifted the boundaries of what makes a truly gripping, terrifying thriller. Imagine Thomas Harris crossed with Kate Atkinson and you still won't be close... Right from the start you know you are reading something both new and with real guts... will leave you breathless" -- Henry Sutton Daily Mirror "An excellent first novel, with a highly original plot and convincingly clammy atmosphere... Belinda Bauer paces the rising tension with great skill and a confidence rarely exhibited by first-timers. She's a real find" The Times "This astonishingly assured debut... for once lives up to the hype... genuinely chilling... a psychological tour-de-force about the cruelty of hope and, ultimately, the triumph of innocence" Guardian "[Bauer's] portrait of the psychopath chills the blood. The reader is fully gripped... Bauer's first novel shows an extraordinary power of imagination and, vital in crime fiction, the ability to create fear and empathy in the reader" Independent "In this atmospheric debut, Bauer ably paints a convincingly chilling portrait of a child killer, but it is her moving portrayal of a lonely, bullied child with a comfortless life that singles her out as an accomplished writer" Daily Mail
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