LONG GONE - Softcover

Burke, Alafair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847561128 ISBN 13: 9781847561121

Publisher: Avon, 2011

Synopsis

Compulsively readable and masterfully plotted, Long Gone does not disappoint.

The nightmare was only just beginning...

After months of unemployment, Alice Humphrey lands her dream job – managing a Manhattan art gallery in the trendy Meatpacking District. According to recruiter Drew Campbell, the gallery is a passion of its anonymous owner, who remains uninvolved in its daily operations.

But she arrives one morning and walks into a nightmare: the space is empty except for the dead body of Drew Campbell. Alice soon finds herself at the centre of the police investigation.

When every thread of the investigation leads back to her, Alice knows she has been set up. But who is out to get her?

About this title

Review:

Michael Connelly: ‘this is smart, hip and always keeps you guessing. This is Alafair Burke's break out book. It's going to be big.’

Dennis Lehane: ‘Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today’.

Harlan Coben: ‘The plot of an Alafair Burke thriller doesn’t just rip from the headlines. She’s one step ahead of them.’

Lisa Unger: This is a red-hot firecracker of a thriller with all the right stuff―perfect pacing, plotting, and suspense.’

From the Back Cover:

What if everything you thought you knew turned out to be a lie?

After a layoff and months of struggling, Alice Humphrey finally lands her dream job managing a new art gallery in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District. According to Drew Campbell, the well-heeled corporate representative who hires her, the gallery is a passion project for its anonymous, wealthy, and eccentric owner. Her friends think it sounds too good to be true, but Alice sees an opportunity to make a name for herself beyond the shadow of her famous father, an award-winning and controversial filmmaker.

Everything is perfect until the morning Alice arrives at work to find the gallery gone—the space stripped bare as if it had never been there—and Drew Campbell's dead body on the floor. Overnight, Alice's dream job has vanished, and she finds herself at the center of a police investigation, with the evidence mounting against her. The phone number Drew gave her links back to a disposable phone. The artist whose work she displayed doesn't seem to exist. And the dead man she claims is Drew has been identified as someone else.

When police discover ties between the gallery and a missing girl, Alice knows she's been set up. Now she has to prove it—a dangerous search for answers that will entangle her in a dark, high-tech criminal conspiracy and force her to unearth long-hidden secrets involving her own family . . . secrets that could cost Alice her life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1847561128
• ISBN 13: 9781847561121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366