Innocent Victims - Hardcover

Walters, Minette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080212612X ISBN 13: 9780802126122

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012

Synopsis

"Innocent Victims" contains two chilling novellas about seemingly normal people driven to commit the most heinous crimes imaginable. CHICKENFEED is a crackling tale based on the true story of the chicken farm murder in East Sussex in 1924. Although Norman Thorne never confessed to killing his girlfriend, he was tried and hanged for the crime. Told from the points of view of Elsie and Norman, Walters creates a suspenseful tale of fiction based on fact. THE TINDER BOX is the story of Patrick O Riordan, a man arrested for the brutal murder of two women. As shock turns to fury, the village residents unite against the O Riordan family. But neighbor Siobhan Lavenham remains convinced that Patrick is innocent. Jeopardizing her own position within the community, she stands firmly in defense of the O Riordan name."

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Review:

PRAISE FOR MINETTE WALTERS A Walters novel is like no other. She bases her books on facts [and] embosses with her own painstaking research and fertile imagination. "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" The Tinder Box is a compelling tale of prejudice and gossip [where] everything falls into place to produce a shockingly different picture than expected. "Publishers Weekly""

About the Author:

Minette Walters is the author of fourteen suspense novels and the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award, among others. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. She lives in Dorset, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 080212612X
• ISBN 13: 9780802126122
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160