The End of the Wasp Season: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Mina, Denise

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316069337 ISBN 13 : 9780316069335

Editeur : Reagan Arthur Books, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Mina Denise

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

A literary West Lothian question: why do Scottish writers dominate British crime fiction? With Denise Mina at least, the answer is pure class (DAILY TELEGRAPH)

One of Denise Mina's many attractions is her willingness to take risks with her characters. She delves deeper than most into emotions, whether of the police, victims or perpetrators; she eschews the usual formula of crime fiction....The financial and moral disintregration of families, the iniquities of the class system and prostitution all play a role. Mina's best (THE TIMES)

The writing is as sharp as a Stanley knife. (Brandon Robshaw The Independent on Sunday)

Thoughful attention to detail take the novel to another level...Scotland has produced some seriously good crime writers; The End of the Wasp Season places Denise Mina alongside Ian Rankin and Val McDermid (FINANCIAL TIMES)

Miss your bus stop....reading The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina, a gripping tale tracing the links between an elite private school, the suicide of a millionaire banker and the shocking murder of a wealthy young woman (GRAZIA)

Cleverly breaks down everything you once thought you knew about crime novels (WEIGHT WATCHERS MAGAZINE)

Denise Mina is one of Scotland's most impressive crime writers. This dark, angry novel doesn't offer easy thrills or the intellectual diversion of a whodunnit. Instead it focusses on its deeply flawed characters, their motivations and the world they live in ... undeniably powerful (SPECTATOR)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family.

Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called in to investigate, she soon discovers that a tangled web of lies lurks behind the murder. It's a web that will spiral through Alex's own home, the local community, and ultimately right back to a swinging rope, hundreds of miles away.

The End of the Wasp Season is an accomplished, compelling and multi-layered novel about family's power of damage-and redemption.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Reagan Arthur Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0316069337
• ISBN 13: 9780316069335
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400