Hanging Hill - Softcover

Mo Hayder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0593063848 ISBN 13: 9780593063842

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2011

Synopsis

What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do things you never thought possible, to go places you never knew existed â ¦These are questions Sally has never really thought about before. Married to a successful business man, sheâ s always been a bit of a dreamer. Until now. Her sister Zoe is her polar opposite. A detective inspector working out of Bath Central, she loves her job, and oozes self-confidence. No one would guess that she hides a crippling secret that dates back twenty years, and which â if exposed â may destroy her.Then Sallyâ s daughter gets into difficulties, and Sally finds she needs cash â lots of it â fast. With no one to help her, she is forced into a criminal world of extreme pornography and illegal drugs; a world in which teenage girls can go missing.Two sisters intent on survival. Until one does something so terrifying that thereâ s no way back â ¦

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About the Author

Mo Hayder has written some of the most terrifying crime thrillers you will ever read. Her first novel, Birdman, was hailed as 'a first-class shocker' by the Guardian, and her follow-up, The Treatment, was voted by The Times one of the top ten most scary thrillers ever written. Mo's books are 100% authentic, dawing on her long research with several UK police forces and on her personal encounters with criminals and prostitutes. She now lives in England's West Country.

From Booklist

*Starred Review* Bath, England, is the site of Hayder’s latest roller-coaster ride into the heart of darkness. With overtones of menace that link the tarot to serial murder, Hayder continues to skirt the edge of the supernatural within the context of a police procedural, defying the reader to prove that she doesn’t really have anything hidden up her sleeve. Hanging Hill introduces a new character, down-to-earth detective inspector Zoe Benedict, who finds herself butting heads with a profiler who seems to be substituting pyschological mumbo jumbo for the process of evidence gathering. Zoe’s stakes in the case are amped off the scale when she finds that her sister and daughter-in-law seem to be in the sadistic killer’s line of fire. It’s unclear whether the novel will launch a new series for Hayder—complementing her acclaimed Walking Man novels (Gone, 2011)—but certainly the fascinating Zoe would make a fine series lead. Hayder’s acclaim in the genre (she is the winner of numerous awards, including, most recently, the 2011 Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library Award) stands only to grow in the wake of her latest triumph. --Elliott Swanson

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593063848
• ISBN 13: 9780593063842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 425