The Bones in the Attic (Wheeler Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Barnard, Robert

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9781587242007: The Bones in the Attic (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587242001 ISBN 13: 9781587242007

Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc, 2002

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The discovery of a child's skeleton that is at least thirty years old in the attic of the old stone house he has just purchased leads Matt Harper on a journey into the past to solve the mystery.

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Review:

‘Robert Barnard is always original, never repeats himself and has a delectable wit’
Jessica Mann, Daily Telegraph

‘Barnard never disappoints. The psychological suspense is chilling’
The Times

‘Robert Barnard retails this finely suspenseful tale, incorporating the Hitchockian awkwardness of disposing of a body, with spellbinding step-by-step matter-of-factness’
Sunday Times

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"Exceptionally well-plotted and written with a stylistic modesty that does the story proud."
'Literary Review'

Moving into an upmarket new home in Leeds, rising radio star Matt Harper is shocked to find the skeleton of a small child in the attic. His grisly discovery takes him back to the summer of 1969, when he lived with his aunt only a few streets away, reawakening dim, disquieting memories from his childhood.

While detective Charlie Peace heads up the nominal police investigation into the bones, Matt revisits the past in an attempt to solve the mystery himself. Tracking down the other members of a gang of local children he'd once belonged to, he gradually unearths a shared secret that has laid buried ever since. Were the bones in the attic the result of a tragic accident, or has time concealed a more sinister truth?

"Barnard never disappoints."
MARCEL BERLINS, 'The Times'

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