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A Killing Winter is a highly accomplished debut . . . Tom Callaghan is a name to watch. (Promoting Crime Fiction)
A Killing Winter is a brilliant debut, and an early contender for one of my top reads of the year I feel (Raven Crime Reads)
His [Tom Callaghan's] descriptions are wonderful - sickeningly so in fact . . . an impressive debut. (The Book Bag)
It's brutal but not cynical; you feel it. It's a hugely impressive debut; atmospheric and stirring (Killing Time Crime)
his [Tom Callaghan's] gloomy atmospheric portrait convinces and he writes with style and panache . . . A lively story and a riveting glimpse of an unknown society (The Times)
This is a thrilling, intense debut from a powerfully descriptive writer (The Daily Express)
[A Killing Winter's] portrait of people trying to eke out a living in this former Soviet Union is unforgettable (Sunday Times)
Ticks all the boxes of plot, setting and character. It's definitely worth trying. (The Crime Warp)
Callaghan is a hell of a writer, with a tremendous sense of pace and an arch ear for juicy dialogue, and the pages flies by. (Crime Thriller Fella)
This is a wonderful book . . . the narrative is savage yet at the same time beautifully crafted . . . A Killing Winter satisfies on so many levels (Milo Rambles)
The twists and turns of the story kept me gripped and I would definitely recommend A Killing Winter (A Crime Readers Blog)
The story and writing sustained me right through to the killer twist ending, which was a welcome surprise that could not be entirely predicted (Book Bonding)
It's solid, fast-paced and enthralling (Written by Sime)
The scope of his investigations, and of this crime novel which works well as a political thriller too, is very wide. And the denouement is suitably surprising and satisfactory. I got there breathless and tense in the end. (Thriller Books Journal)
Présentation de l'éditeur
Tom Callaghan made his name as a successful advertising executive and filmmaker. Now in A Killing Winter he has created an atmospheric thriller that deftly shines a harsh fluorescent glare on the pitiless work of being a homicide detective on the frozen, mean streets of the post-Soviet 'Stans.
In this neo-noir set in the mountainous Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, hard-bitten inspector Akyl Borubaev mourns the recent death of his beloved wife--the only humanizing force in his otherwise bleak life as a homicide detective in Bishkek. As he struggles to face his personal pain, Borubaev is assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman whose horribly mutilated body is found dumped in a public park in the dead of the forbidding Kyrgyz winter. When the pathologist informs Borubaev that the killer stuffed a fetus from another woman into the womb of the victim, the detective realizes he is hunting a psychopath. Then Borubaev discovers the woman is the only daughter of Mikhail Tekebayev, the powerful and ruthless Minister of State Security, and realizes the case will probably destroy him, regardless of where the evidence leads.
Borubaev begins making enemies everywhere he turns, even as he is aided by a motley assortment of dangerous cut-throats: his uncle Kursan, whose cross-border smuggling is the stuff of local legend; the explosive police chief, who wants the case solved as soon as possible; Saltanat, a beautiful and murderous agent of the Uzbek Security Service; an entire police force of bent cops; and members of the Kyrgyz mafia.
All of which would just be another day in the life of Akyl Borubaev—if the investigation didn't turn up a blood-chilling connection to multiple homicides in several nearby countries, including one on a military base in Russia.
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- ÉditeurQuercus
- Date d'édition2016
- ISBN 10 1681443236
- ISBN 13 9781681443232
- ReliureBroché
- Langueanglais
- Coordonnées du fabricantnon disponible
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