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Praise for The Bones in the Attic... "[A] superbly written suspense novel....Barnard quickly pulls his readers into the plot and holds them there right through the final pages." -Publishers Weekly "Robert Barnard is one of the best living British crime writers." -Peter Robinson, author of the Inspector Banks mysteries What happens when one's future is shanghaied by one's past? Soccer star Matt Harper, a rising media celebrity, has just sunk some roots in Yorkshire by buying a rambling old house in Leeds. There he intends to settle down with his lover Aileen and her three children. A survey of the attic with an architect produces a shock-a tiny skeleton. It is identified as that of a two-year-old who died some 30 years ago, during the summer of 1969 when Matt was sent from London to live in Leeds with his aunt, a summer he spent playing soccer with his mates. But now, disturbing memories surface. Detective Inspector Charlie Peace wryly acknowledges the low priority of the case for the local police, so Matt mounts his own investigation, struggling to understand how a child could just disappear and never be reported missing. Whose bones are in the attic? Robert Barnard is the winner of the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Nero Wolfe Award, as well as the Agatha and Macavity awards. An eight-time Edgar nominee, he is a member of Britain's distinguished Detection Club, and he received the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in mystery writing in 2003. He lives with his wife, Louise, in Leeds, England.

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"Once in a while you come across a perfect whodunit--and it's often the work of Robert Barnard...with the perfect pitch, exquisite pacing, and meticulous plotting of a genuine master at this game." --Marilyn Stasio, "The New York Times"

"As always, Barnard is absolutely compelling." --"Booklist"

Barnard quickly pulls his readers into the plot and holds them there right through the final pages, leaving them, along with his hero, pondering further possibilities. --"Publisher's Weekly"
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"Exceptionally well-plotted and written with a stylistic modesty that does the story proud."
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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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  • PublisherPoisoned Pen Press
  • Publication date2013
  • ISBN 10 1590581725
  • ISBN 13 9781590581728
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages218
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