Lost Girls - Hardcover

Pyper, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038533446X ISBN 13: 9780385334464

Publisher: Delacorte Pr, 2000

Synopsis

The disappearance of two fourteen-year-old girls from a down-and-out northern Ontario town draws idealistic defense lawyer Bartholomew Christian Crane into a sticky murder trial. A first novel. 27,500 first printing.

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Pyper was born and raised in Stratford, Ontario. He received an undergraduate and master's degree in English literature from McGill University in Montreal, as well as a law degree from the University of Toronto.  His collection of stories, Kiss Me, released only in Canada, was hailed "an astonishing piece of work" by The Globe and Mail. He lives in Toronto. Lost Girls is his first novel.

From the Inside Flap

per's haunting first novel, the disappearance of two young girls sets in motion a nightmarish journey into darkness, as a young defense attorney returns to his beleaguered hometown to try a bizarre and macabre murder case. A gothic thriller that will catch you off guard at every turn, Lost Girls is more than a story about a chilling crime and its aftermath; it is an edgy exploration of terrors real, terrors imagined, and the ones that lie somewhere in between.

Attorney Bartholomew Christian Crane doesn't belong in the town of Murdoch. And Murdoch, a small city by the shores of Lake St. Christopher, doesn't want him there. Even Crane's client, a teacher accused of murdering two young girls, his own students, doesn't seem to care if Crane gets him off or not. But Crane loves nothing better than turning guilt into innocence, lies into truth, and winning at all costs. His boss's motto for defending a client: Don't just deny, blame someone else. Now Crane will try to do just that-

Edition details

• Publisher: Delacorte Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038533446X
• ISBN 13: 9780385334464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 388