Naked to the Hangman: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 8 - Couverture rigide

Taylor, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0340895195 ISBN 13 : 9780340895191

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2006

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Complex and absorbing' (Woman & Home)

'Taylor's novels are always intelligent, well-structured and engrossing reads.' (Yorkshire Post)

'Andrew Taylor's Lydmouth series becomes more impressive with each book... Taylor's special skill is getting under the skill of his characters and creating a vivid portrait of even the dullest setting. It's a very accomplished novel.' (Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph)

'Andrew Taylor's Lydmouth series becomes more impressive with each book . . . Taylor's special skill is getting under the skill of his characters and creating a vivid portrait of even the dullest setting. It's a very accomplished novel.' (Sunday Telegraph)

'Andrew Taylor is remarkably prolific - it doesn't seem five minutes since his last stand-alone novel appeared - but what is even more remarkable is that his productivity does not have the least adverse effect on the quality of his writing. On the contrary, this latest entry in the excellent Lydmouth series is arguably even stronger than its predecessor, the admirable 'Call for the Dying'. In this book, Richard Thornhill comes under pressure as never before when a tragedy from his brief service as a police officer in Palestine comes back to haunt him. The mystery element of the story is handled with Taylor's usual skill, and there are a couple of neat twists, but what I found striking was the way this talented writer made me care a great deal about such questions as who would accompany whom at the local charity dance. He draws us completely into the remote world of 1950s rural England and makes what happens there matter very much. A considerable achievement.' (Tangled Web)

'This latest entry in the excellent Lydmouth series is arguably even stronger than its predecessor, the admirable Call for the Dying . . . He draws us completely into the remote world of 1950s rural England and makes what happens there matter very much. A considerable achievement.' (Tangled Web)

'Andrew Taylor's novels have long been the quiet successes of contemporary British crime writing... His latest novel, Naked to the Hangman, is yet another engaging and atmospheric tale, reinforcing his deserved reputation as one of the best crime writers of his generation... Taylor has a gift for making us care about the details of his characters' lives - whether the wrong person will be accused of a petty theft, or whether romance will develop from a casual encounter - and it is this that creates the tension and atmosphere in Naked to the Hangman. There is drama, too, and real danger for some of the town's inhabitants, but it is the affinity for the characters that gives edge to the suspense, rather than the graphic violence or gory detail found in much crime fiction... It's a snapshot of a world on the brink, a social history peopled with believable characters whose small dilemmas are as revealing as the motives for committing murder. Whether they are Lydmouth novels like Naked to (Yorkshire Post)

Praise for Andrew Taylor and CALL THE DYING (:)

Taylor's Lydmouth series is turning the classical detective story into a complex picture of our own past (Independent)

'I am a fan of Andrew Taylor, who continues to evoke provincial England brilliantly in his Lydmouth novels, set in the 1950s. Naked to the Hangman fills in the personal history of his tormented detective, Chief Inspector Thornhill, revealing the horrors that he witnessed as a young police officer in Palestine in the closing days of the British mandate. It is a far cry from those events to a dancing class in Lydmouth, which is where the English scenes open, but Taylor draws the two worlds perfectly. A supporting cast of bored teenagers hanging out in the local coffee bar, and an austere Oxford don who doesn't know how to relate to his children, keeps up the period atmosphere.' (Sunday Times)

Présentation de l'éditeur

As a young police officer in Palestine during the closing months of the Mandate - the cradle of Middle Eastern terrorism - Richard Thornhill saw and did things which still haunt his dreams and make him fear for his sanity. Is he himself a killer?

Now, when a retired police officer is found dead in the ruins of Lydmouth Castle, the past has come back to claim Detective Inspector Thornhill, and he is under suspicion of another murder. His wife Edith and former lover Jill Francis join forces in an uneasy alliance to try to help him. But there are many complications - scandalous allegations have been made about Miss Awre's School of Dancing; the Ruispidge Charity's annual dance for young people is under threat; teenagers haunt the newly opened Italian coffee bar and yearn for fumbled intimacies in the sheltering darkness of the Rex Cinema; an Oxford don is looking for love; the Angel of Death wears khaki shorts and drives a Ford van. And the Spring floods are rising higher than they have in living memory, drowning a multitude of secrets . . .

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0340895195
• ISBN 13: 9780340895191
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400