Criminals - Softcover

Livesey, Margot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099285886 ISBN 13: 9780099285885

Publisher: Vintage, 2001

Synopsis

A decent, harried young banker travels north to Scotland and his mysteriously troubled sister. A single mother struggles to make a home for her family in a society she only vaguely comprehends. A baby girl is abandoned in a bus station and picked up by a stranger. A caller leaves threatening messages. Brilliantly structured and tense as a thriller, CRIMNINALS shows how the best intentions can have the worst results - and how families pull together, form themselves anew, and occasionally, tear apart.

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Product Description:

(When a yuppie banker finds an abandoned baby girl on the floor of a bus station restroom, he ignites the passions, greed, and madness that were lying just beneath of the surface of seemingly ordinary lives. As we watch helplessly, the situation slowly spirals out of control, and the characters' carelessness, secrets, and lies lead inevitably to tragedy. Livesey shows us that we are all criminals waiting for the right set of circumstances to reveal our crimes)

Review:

"A wonderful novel, impeccably written and thoroughly engrossing."--"The New York Times Book Review"

"Where do love, honesty, and responsibility intersect? . . . A provocative rumination on family and what it means to do the right thing."--"Glamour"
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""Funny, suspenseful, and sometimes creepy."--"Los Angeles Times"
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""One of the most surprising thrillers of the year--completely offbeat, unexpected, and unique. Margot Livesey is right up there in the realm of P. D. James."--
"Newsday"

"A story of many kinds of love, indifference, secrecy, and blind selfishness that drives as fiercely to its surprising conclusion as any thriller."--Rosellen Brown

A wonderful novel, impeccably written and thoroughly engrossing. "The New York Times Book Review"

Where do love, honesty, and responsibility intersect? . . . A provocative rumination on family and what it means to do the right thing. "Glamour"

Funny, suspenseful, and sometimes creepy. "Los Angeles Times"

One of the most surprising thrillers of the year--completely offbeat, unexpected, and unique. Margot Livesey is right up there in the realm of P. D. James. "Newsday"

A story of many kinds of love, indifference, secrecy, and blind selfishness that drives as fiercely to its surprising conclusion as any thriller. "Rosellen Brown""

"A wonderful novel, impeccably written and thoroughly engrossing." --The New York Times Book Review

"Where do love, honesty, and responsibility intersect? . . . A provocative rumination on family and what it means to do the right thing." --Glamour

"Funny, suspenseful, and sometimes creepy." --Los Angeles Times

"One of the most surprising thrillers of the year--completely offbeat, unexpected, and unique. Margot Livesey is right up there in the realm of P. D. James." --Newsday

"A story of many kinds of love, indifference, secrecy, and blind selfishness that drives as fiercely to its surprising conclusion as any thriller." --Rosellen Brown

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099285886
• ISBN 13: 9780099285885
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288