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Synopsis
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. Every day after school, while his classmates swap football stickers, Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew, who disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery.
Only Steven's Nan is not convinced 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. And if that means presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son, he'll do it.
So the boy takes the next logical step, carefully crafting a letter to Arnold Avery in prison. And there begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game between a desperate child and a bored serial killer.
A game that will have more terrifying consequences than Steven could ever imagine...
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"Original, unsettling and atmospheric, this is a debut that hits the ground running" (VAL MCDERMID)
"Bleak, thought-provoking and utterly original" (MO HAYDER)
"A new UK crime writer to shout about . . . Exceptional debut . . . this is both a study of a fractured family and a gripping thriller" (Bookseller (Alice O'Keeffe))
"Blacklands is a very special debut thriller, and a clear-eyed depiction of ordinary people under extraordinary stress. This is something quite new" (ANN CLEEVES, CWA Gold Dagger winner 2006)
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A chilling psychological debut, Blacklands introduces an extraordinary new author reminiscent of the best of Minette Walters and Barbara Vine.
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- PublisherBantam Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0593062949
- ISBN 13 9780593062944
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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