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There's nowhere to run ...
When a little girl is found on an icy hillside, on the brink of starvation, Clare Hart is baffled that nobody has reported her missing.
In another troubling turn of events, a distraught woman approaches Clare for help locating her granddaughter, a gifted cellist who has abandoned her music scholarship and been seduced by a cultish religious community and its charismatic leader.
As Clare investigates these two cases, she realizes they are connected in ways too horrifying to fathom ...
Water Music is a dark and twisting thriller perfect for fans of Deon Meyer and Tess Gerritsen.
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Margie Orford is an award-winning journalist who has been dubbed the Queen of South African Crime Fiction. Her novels have been translated into nine languages. She was born in London and grew up in Namibia. A Fulbright Scholar, she was educated in South Africa and the United States. She is Executive Vice-President of South African PEN and a patron of Rape Crisis and the children's book charity The Little Hands Trust. She lives in Cape Town. The entire Clare Hart series is forthcoming from Witness Impulse.
'Excellent' Literary Review. 'I loved the twists and turns of this book, and the truly unknowable nature of the next chapter' The Bookseller. 'Water Music is fascinated with the way cultural and political pressures affect criminal behaviour ... Orford has a rare ability to get under the skin of the genre's conventions' Irish Times. 'Orford writes with verve and a crackling energy' The Weekender. 'Margie Orford is world-class. This is crime writing at its very best' Deon Meyer. 'Orford plots so brilliantly that to stop reading is as harrowing as to carry on' Telegraph (Books of the Year). 'Wonderfully crafted and fully engrossing' Michael Connelly.
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- PublisherJonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg and Cape Town
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1868422410
- ISBN 13 9781868422418
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages322
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