The Firemaker - Couverture souple

May, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1590585690 ISBN 13 : 9781590585696

Editeur : Poisoned Pen Pr, 2009

Synopsis

Set in contemporary China, The Firemaker features Beijing detective Li Yan, and American pathologist, Margaret Campbell, as they track the killer of a government scientist whose horribly burned corpse is found smouldering in a Beijing park.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BCC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.

He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.

Revue de presse

Praise for Peter May:

He is a terrific writer doing something different.

(Mark Billingham)

From the first page I knew I was in safe hands. I knew I could trust this writer. (Sophie Hannah)

Wonderfully compelling. (Kate Mosse)

A true pleasure to read. (Guardian)

Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth. (New York Times)

One of the best regarded crime series of recent years. (Boyd Tonkin Independent, on the Lewis trilogy)

Lyrical, empathetic and moving. (Alex Gray)

A wonderfully complex book. (Peter James, on Entry Island)

May's novels are strong on place and the wounds left by old relationships. (Sunday Times)

Will have the reader relishing every tendency of description and characterization. (Barry Forshaw Independent)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Poisoned Pen Pr
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1590585690
• ISBN 13: 9781590585696
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 403
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible