Items related to The Red Room: With a new introduction by Peter James

The Red Room: With a new introduction by Peter James - Softcover

 
9781405920650: The Red Room: With a new introduction by Peter James
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 

***Special anniversary edition, with a new introduction from Peter James***

He almost took your life. Now his is in your hands...

When Leanne, a homeless young girl, is murdered beside a canal in North London, the police are certain that known oddball Michael Doll is the killer.

Psychologist Kit Quinn, assisting the investigation, has her own reasons to despise Doll - but she soon realises that the case is more complicated than the investigators suspect.

Because Kit has found a link to another death. Which means they might have a serial killer on their hands...

'The writing has that rare ability to reach out from the page into your soul, grip your heartstrings, and not let go of them until the very end.' Peter James

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:
Many are the writers who tackle the field of the psychological thriller, but few create such a dark and compelling world as Nicci French. The Red Room inhabits the same sinister universe as such previous thrillers as The Memory Game and the book that many consider to be her finest to date, Killing Me Softly. French is concerned with the unstable surface of reality and the malign undercurrents of human behaviour forever threatening to disrupt the tenuous happiness of her characters. In The Red Room, her particular priority is the queasy attraction of the forbidden and the terrifying.

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

Review:
Absorbing, highly addictive (Evening Standard)

French is excellent at building up suspense and elegantly exploiting all our worst fears (Daily Mail)

Brilliantly plotted, crisply written and very, very frightening (Cosmopolitan)

Gripping, chilling, moving (Observer)

Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition. (Sophie Hannah)

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherPenguin
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 1405920653
  • ISBN 13 9781405920650
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages432
  • Rating

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781547288892: The Red Room

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9781547288892
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishi..., 2017
Softcover

  • 9780446611374: The Red Room

    Grand ..., 2002
    Softcover

  • 9780141034157: The Red Room: With a new introduction by Peter James

    Penguin, 2008
    Softcover

  • 9781539864875: The Red Room

    Create..., 2016
    Softcover

  • 9781357370985: The Red Room

    Palala..., 2016
    Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Nicci French
Published by Penguin Books Ltd (2015)
ISBN 10: 1405920653 ISBN 13: 9781405920650
New Paperback / softback Quantity: 2
Seller:
THE SAINT BOOKSTORE
(Southport, United Kingdom)

Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Seller Inventory # B9781405920650

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 9.81
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

French, Nicci
Published by Penguin (2015)
ISBN 10: 1405920653 ISBN 13: 9781405920650
New Paperback Quantity: 2
Seller:
Monster Bookshop
(Fleckney, United Kingdom)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. BRAND NEW ** SUPER FAST SHIPPING FROM UK WAREHOUSE ** 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE. Seller Inventory # 9781405920650-GDR

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 10.73
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

French, Nicci
Published by Michael Joseph (2015)
ISBN 10: 1405920653 ISBN 13: 9781405920650
New Softcover Quantity: 4
Seller:
GreatBookPricesUK
(Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom)

Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 23732770-n

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 10.98
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Nicci French
ISBN 10: 1405920653 ISBN 13: 9781405920650
New paperback Quantity: 10
Seller:
Blackwell's
(Oxford, OX, United Kingdom)

Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG. Seller Inventory # 9781405920650

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 10.99
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

FRENCH NICCI
Published by Michael Joseph (2015)
ISBN 10: 1405920653 ISBN 13: 9781405920650
New Softcover Quantity: 2
Seller:
Speedyhen
(London, United Kingdom)

Book Description Condition: NEW. Seller Inventory # NW9781405920650

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 11.45
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Nicci French
Published by Penguin Books Ltd (2015)
ISBN 10: 1405920653 ISBN 13: 9781405920650
New PAP Quantity: 2
Seller:
PBShop.store UK
(Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom)

Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # GB-9781405920650

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 11.66
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

French, Nicci
Published by Michael Joseph (2015)
ISBN 10: 1405920653 ISBN 13: 9781405920650
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Ria Christie Collections
(Uxbridge, United Kingdom)

Book Description Condition: New. In eng. Seller Inventory # ria9781405920650_new

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 11.87
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Nicci French
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London (2015)
ISBN 10: 1405920653 ISBN 13: 9781405920650
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
CitiRetail
(Stevenage, United Kingdom)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Enter the Red Room - where nightmares become realityHe almost took your life. Now his is in your hands . . .After psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who attacked her to a series of murders, she refuses to simply accept the obvious.But the closer her investigation takes her to the truth behind the savage crimes, the nearer Kit gets to the dark heart of her own terror. After psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who attacked her to a series of murders, she refuses to simply accept the obvious. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781405920650

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 12.49
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Nicci French
Published by Penguin Books Ltd (2015)
ISBN 10: 1405920653 ISBN 13: 9781405920650
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Seller:

Book Description Condition: New. After psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who attacked her to a series of murders, she refuses to simply accept the obvious. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294. . 2015. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781405920650

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 12.58
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 2.56
From Ireland to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Nicci French
Published by Penguin Books Ltd (2015)
ISBN 10: 1405920653 ISBN 13: 9781405920650
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Kennys Bookstore
(Olney, MD, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. After psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who attacked her to a series of murders, she refuses to simply accept the obvious. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294. . 2015. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781405920650

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
£ 14.76
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: £ 2.38
From U.S.A. to United Kingdom
Destination, rates & speeds

There are more copies of this book

View all search results for this book