Gone to Ground: (Grayson & Walker) - Softcover

Harvey, John

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ISBN 10: 0099585626 ISBN 13: 9780099585626

Verlag: Arrow, 2013

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Gone to Ground When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their first thoughts are off an ill-judged sexual encounter, of rough trade gone wrong. Full description

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Stephen Bryan, a gay academic, is found brutally murdered in his bathroom. At first, detectives Will Grayson and Helen Walker assume that his death is the result of an ill-judged sexual encounter: rough trade gone wrong.

But doubts are soon raised. Bryan's laptop has gone missing - could the murder be connected to a biography he was writing on the life and mysterious death of fifties screen legend Stella Leonard?

Convinced there's a link, Bryan's sister Lesley sets out to prove that Bryan had uncovered a dangerous truth, and that - desperate to keep it hidden - Stella Leonard's rich and influential family have silenced him.

'Harvey is a master craftsman. This is classic stuff.' Guardian

'I know of no other crime writer who writes so well, has attracted such unanimously positive reviews, and been so respected by his fellow writers.' The Times

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Will's first thought when he saw the man's face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out.

When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their first thoughts are off an ill-judged sexual encounter, of rough trade gone wrong.

But as their investigation widens, their attention focusses on the biography Bryan was writing about the life and death of fifties film star, Stella Leonard, whose death from drowning, when the car she was driving skidded mysteriously off a lonely Fenland road, uncannily echoed the climax of her most notorious film, Shattered Glass.

With Bryan's journalist sister egging them on, and bringing herself into mortal danger as she conducts her own investigation, Will and Helen gradually peel away the secrets of a family blighted by a lust for wealth and power and its own perverted sexuality.

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• Verlag: Arrow
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0099585626
• ISBN 13: 9780099585626
• Einband: Broché
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496