Hanging Hill - Softcover

Hayder, Mo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802120857 ISBN 13: 9780802120854

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013

Synopsis

"[Hayder] has in no way lost her ability to shock, thrill, entertain and occasionally torture us with her use of words. . . . A chiller to the very end. Hayder deals with Britain at its grittiest." --Peter Millar, The Times (London) Mo Hayder is a world-class author of gritty, gripping page-turners, winner of the Dagger in the Library from the Crime Writers' Association for outstanding body of work. With her latest novel, she ratchets up the terror to fever pitch. Fast-paced and addictive, Hanging Hill centers around a pair of estranged sisters--one a cop, one a coddled wife fallen on hard times--and the gruesome homicide of a teenage beauty, which exposes the nightmares that lurk at the edges of our safe domestic lives. One morning in picture-perfect Bath, England, a teenage girl's body is found on the towpath of a canal. Lorne Wood--beautiful, popular, and apparently the victim of a disturbingly brutal murder. Why was she on the towpath alone late at night? Zoe Benedict--Harley-riding police detective, independent to a fault--is convinced the department head needs to look beyond the usual domestic motives to solve the case, but no one wants to hear it, especially from the department's black sheep. Meanwhile, Zoe's sister, Sally--recently divorced and in dire financial straits, supporting a daughter who was friends with the dead girl--has begun working as a housekeeper for a rich entrepreneur who seems less eccentric and more repugnant, and possibly dangerous. And why are his sinister associates showing up at her daughter's school? When Zoe's investigation turns up evidence that Lorne's attempts to break into modeling had delivered her into the world of webcam girls and amateur porn, a crippling secret from Zoe's past seems determined to emerge. All roads seem to be leading to one conclusion: there's something very wrong at the house on Hanging Hill. But will Zoe and Sally put their differences aside and fit all the pieces together before it's too late? Hanging Hill is a masterful, terrifying book that will have readers sleeping with the lights on.

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Review:

"an authentically disturbing gripping winner." (FT Weekend)

"With Mo Hayder you never know where you are going until you get there. A chiller to the very end." (THE TIMES)

"She handles the plot with all the expertise and flair that her earlier work leads you to expect." (SUNDAY TIMES)

"Hayder is an excellent writer...She has the priceless ability to keep you turning the pages...especially with the novel's sly and beautifully finessed twist in the tail." (SPECTATOR)

"...an incendiary scenario, one that Hayder dispatches with her customary power." (Good Book Guide, Oct 11)

Book Description:

How far would you go to protect the one you love? The new standalone bestseller by the UK's most terrifying thriller writer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0802120857
• ISBN 13: 9780802120854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432