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Kit Quinn has a job that many would find too disturbing to tackle. Her beat is the world of crime scenes, hospitals for the criminally insane, the grimmer prisons. In her latest assignment, colleagues in the police ask for her help in what initially appears to be a straightforward murder inquiry, in which a youthful runaway has been killed near a London canal. At first, the evidence points to the killer being a man who wounded the murdered young woman, but Kit has learned that the appearance of things in a deceptive world may not be trusted. As she descends deeper and deeper into a brutal underworld of lost and exploited youngsters, she finds herself as at risk as the young victims she is dealing with.
What makes this more than a conventional thriller is the author's fastidious examination of her heroine's tortured psyche. Kate has suffered terrible wounds in a savage attack, and there is something unhealthy about her immersion in the kind of life that left her with terrible scars. French is particularly sharp on her efforts to push her life back into some kind of conventional order. The Red Room has the customary dangerous voyage to the centre of a mystery that is par for the course for the genre, but this is also a study of the troubled psyche of a damaged heroine, and her dark world view:
Beware of beautiful days. Bad things happen on beautiful days. It may be that when you get happy, you get careless. Beware of having a plan. Your gaze is focused on the plan, and that's the moment when things start happening just outside your range of vision ...
--Barry Forshaw
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. French,Nicci Red Room 1st British editon. Some tanning to pages. Signed by both authors, husband and wife team. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers. Signed By Author. Seller Inventory # 294526
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. Kit Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds. Horribly wounded in an attack by a suspect, she must return to the site of her worst fears. Kit's search for the truth draws her into an underworld of the missing and into danger. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration. Seller Inventory # GOR010744764
Book Description Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Seller Inventory # X05G-00602
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. Signed! Pages are tanning but clean. Seller Inventory # mon0002361132
Book Description 1st Edition 1st printing. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is not price-clipped. SIGNED COPY by both Nicci and Jean French - Flat Signatures.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages; Physical description.: 339 p. ; 25 cm. Subject: Fiction -- Suspense fiction. Summary: Kit Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds: crime scenes, interrogation scenes, hospitals for the criminally insane. Horribly wounded in an attack by a suspect, she must return to the site of her worst fears. She is asked by the police to advise them on a simple murder inquiry. A young runaway has been found killed by a canal and the chief suspect is the man who wounded Kit. But Kit refuses to accept appearances and her obsessive search for the truth draws her into an underworld of the missing and the unloved which puts her at terrible risk. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 210317
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing UK hardback, 2001 Michael Joseph. The book is in fine condition, the dustjacket is in fine condition. It is not price clipped. Signed by Nicci Gerard and Sean French co authors of the book. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 1194
Book Description 1st Edition 1st printing. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is not price-clipped. SIGNED COPY by both Nicci and Jean French - Flat Signatures.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 339 pages; Physical description.: 339 p. ; 25 cm. Subject: Fiction -- Suspense fiction. Summary: Kit Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds: crime scenes, interrogation scenes, hospitals for the criminally insane. Horribly wounded in an attack by a suspect, she must return to the site of her worst fears. She is asked by the police to advise them on a simple murder inquiry. A young runaway has been found killed by a canal and the chief suspect is the man who wounded Kit. But Kit refuses to accept appearances and her obsessive search for the truth draws her into an underworld of the missing and the unloved which puts her at terrible risk. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 210317
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Black Hard Cover.Signed by both authors.on title page. Spine ends slightly rubbed, else fine. 340pp all in fine condition. Dust Jacket, spine ends slightly creased, else fine. Not Price Clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book. Seller Inventory # 012750