Waterloo Sunset

Edwards, Martin

ISBN 10: 0749080531 / ISBN 13: 9780749080532

Published by Allison & Busby, London, 2008

About this Item

First edition, first printing of the eighth novel in the "Harry Devlin" series. SIGNED by Edwards on the title page. In fine / fine unread condition. Seller Inventory # 19163

Bibliographic Details

Title: Waterloo Sunset

Publisher: Allison & Busby, London

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

No one expects to read their own obituary. Someone wants Liverpool lawyer Harry Devlin dead and he has only seven days to find out who. Who can he trust when Liverpool becomes increasingly unfamiliar amidst the preparations for the Capital of Culture celebrations?

Review:

At the start of the impressive eighth entry in Edwards?'s Harry Devlin series (/All the Lonely People/, etc.), the Liverpool attorney receives a fake newspaper notice announcing his death on Midsummer?'s Eve. Subsequent threatening messages lead him to take the less-than-a-week deadline seriously. Given Devlin?'s penchant for sticking his nose where it doesn t belong, many people bear him murderous grudges. Devlin focuses on two suspects Tom Gunter, a violent thug and a former client, and Aled Borth, a loner angered that the lawyer?'s best efforts didn t result in a charge of murder being brought against the nursing home where Borth?'s mother died. The addition of a serial killer who severs his victim?'s tongues might have proven too much for the plot to bear in a lesser writer?'s hands, but Edwards skillfully weaves the strands together. While some readers will guess the truth before Devlin does, all will enjoy this twisty whodunit. -- Publishers Weekly (12/24/2007)