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Preserve The Dead: a tense, gripping crime novel
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Preserve The Dead: a tense, gripping crime novel
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Brian McGilloway
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Series | DS Lucy Black |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:400 | Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 122 |
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Category/Genre | Crime and mystery |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781472133670
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Classifications | Dewey:823.92 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Little, Brown Book Group
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Imprint |
Constable
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Publication Date |
7 April 2022 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
'Dazzling' The Guardian on Borderlands 'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane 'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child on Bad Blood ________ Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is visiting her father, a patient in a secure unit in Gransha Hospital on the banks of the River Foyle. He's been hurt badly in an altercation with another patient, and Lucy is shocked to discover him chained to the bed for safety. But she barely has time to take it all in, before an orderly raises the alarm - a body has been spotted floating in the river below... The body of an elderly man in a grey suit is hauled ashore: he is cold dead. He has been dead for several days. In fact a closer examination reveals that he has already been embalmed. A full scale investigation is launched - could this really be the suicide they at first assumed, or is this some kind of sick joke? Troubled and exhausted, Lucy goes back to her father's shell of a house to get some sleep; but there'll be no rest for her tonight. She's barely in the front door when a neighbour knocks, in total distress - his wife's sister has turned up badly beaten. Can she help? ___________ In Preserve The Dead, Brian McGilloway weaves a pacy, intricate plot, full of tension to the very last page. DS Lucy Black's third outing since the bestselling Little Girl Lost confirms her as one of the decade's most original female detectives: strong, sensitive and ever determined. Praise for Preserve the Dead: 'Storytelling of the highest order from one of Irish crime writing's most unassuming masters' Irish Independent
Author Biography
Brian McGilloway is the author of eleven crime novels including the Ben Devlin mysteries and the Lucy Black series, the first of which, Little Girl Lost, became a New York Times and UK No.1 bestseller. In addition to being shortlisted for a CWA Dagger and the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, he is a past recipient of the Ulster University McCrea Literary Award and won the BBC Tony Doyle Award for his screenplay, Little Emperors. He currently teaches in Strabane, where he lives with his wife and four children.
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