Red Cat - Hardcover

Peter, Spiegelman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844137929 ISBN 13: 9781844137923

Publisher: Century, 2007

Synopsis

When John March gets a phone call from his brother David, the lid comes off one of his family's closely guarded secrets. Prim, judgmental in his public life, David has been having sexual encounters with women arranged anonymously over the internet. But now one of his contacts has turned nasty: she has somehow got hold of David's private number and is leaving compromising messages on his phone that might destroy his marriage. David wants John to find the woman who he knows only as her codename, 'Wren', and put a stop to the harassment before it turns into something even darker. But John March is a gentle soul: he agrees to trace Wren through Manhattan's dark underbelly and reason with her if he can. But just as John gets a good lead on her, Wren's dead body is pulled out of New York's East River. She has been strangled. There are many people who will remember John March asking suspicious questions about the dead woman. So the race is on to find the real killer before John and his brother are arrested for a murder they did not commit.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The new novel from the decade's most explosive new thriller writer

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Advance praise for Red Cat:

'Red Cat is his edgiest and most accomplished work yet. The plot unfolds at breakneck speed, the twists are startling, the climax wrenching, and the writing is flat-out beautiful' Joseph Finder, author of Paranoia

'Red Cat is the best mystery I've read in a long time. Taut, gritty, and beautifully written. But Spiegelman's greatest talent - and what sets him far above his contemporaries - can be found in his evocation of character. John March is one of the great fictional PI's of the past decade. Conflicted, sympathetic, and brilliantly brought to life.' Christopher Reich

'What distinguishes the novel is the level of the writing ... At times Spiegelman's prose recalls Raymond Chandler's....Red Cat is one of the most interesting crime novels you're likely to encounter this year’ Washington Post

‘Spiegelman's sharp prose pulls the reader straight through to the bittersweet end’ Wall Street Journal

‘Mystery fans will love his nifty guess-again plot, fuel injected prose and deeply complex characters, but what shines is the way the author makes the murky psychological secrets of relationships just as thrilling as the crime itself’ People

About this edition

• Publisher: Century
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1844137929
• ISBN 13: 9781844137923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304