Death Duties - Hardcover

Lovesey, Phil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002326493 ISBN 13: 9780002326490

Verlag: Collins Crime, 1998

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Signed copy - Flat signature. ; 297 pages; Physical description. : 297 p. ; 22 cm. Subject: Murder - Investigation - England - Essex - Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Psychology, Pathological - Fiction. Summary: A chilling psychological mystery novel from an exciting new talent. Maldon, Essex, 1969: two policemen and a WPC listen intently as a seven-year-old girl calmly tells them why she's just killed her father. Thirty years later, the grotesque killing of an old woman, found daubed in cheap make-up, baffles the police, and the discovery of a second body sends the press into a frenzy, demanding answers to the mystery of the Christmas Killer. The three original officers find themselves on a journey fraught with emotional discoveries and hidden secrets in an attempt to solve the killings, for it is only by unravelling the half-truths and deceptions of the past that a deranged killer's twisted intentions can be halted in the future. Series: Collins crime.

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A chilling psychological mystery novel from an exciting new talent

Denbury, Essex, 1965, and two young policemen and a WPC listen intently as a seven-year-old girl calmly tells them why she’s just killed her father.

Placed in the protective care of her aunt, the young girl grows into a murderously effective euthanasia machine, ending suffering for those she’s convinced would be better off in another world.

Thirty years later, an old woman is discovered murdered in her flat, hideously daubed with cheap make-up. Police are baffled, searching for a motive to give any kind of clue as to the killer. The appearance of a second body, days later, sends the press into a frenzy, demanding answers to the gruesome mystery of the Christmas Killer.

It takes the combined talents of all three original officers to delve deeply into their own pasts and insecurities to solve the killings – a journey fraught with uncomfortable emotional discoveries and hidden secrets. It is only by unravelling the half-truths and deceptions of the past that a deranged killer’s twisted intentions can be halted in the future.

Phil Lovesey’s chilling novel combines all the excitement of a murder mystery with a depth of psychological insight into the areas of child manipulation and psychopathy that will fascinate and haunt the reader. Death Duties marks the debut of a remarkable new talent.

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Maldon, Essex, 1969 – two young policemen and a WPC listen intently as a seven-year-old girl calmly tells them why she’s just killed her father.

Thirty years later, an old woman is discovered murdered in her flat, hideously daubed with cheap make-up. Police are baffled, searching for a motive to give any kind of clue as to the killer. The appearance of a second body, days later, sends the press into a frenzy, demanding answers to the gruesome mystery of the Christmas Killer.

It takes the combined talents of all three original officers to delve deeply into their own pasts and insecurities to solve the killings – a journey fraught with uncomfortable emotional discoveries and hidden secrets. It is only by unravelling the half-truths and deceptions of the past that a deranged killer’s twisted intentions can be halted in the future.

Phil Lovesey’s chilling novel combines all the excitement of a murder mystery with a depth of psychological insight into the areas of child manipulation and psychopathy that will fascinate and haunt the reader. 'Death Duties' marks the debut of a remarkable new talent.

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• Verlag: Collins Crime
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0002326493
• ISBN 13: 9780002326490
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304