Lesser Creatures - Hardcover

Pirnie, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786718927 ISBN 13: 9780786718924

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2006

Synopsis

Convinced she is the target of animal-rights activists after her car is blown up, journalist Sue Bennett begins her own hunt for the bombers. As more blasts, more deaths follow, Sue's investigations lead her to a known supplier of Semtex to terrorists. And now Special Branch is interested in her work. But their surveillance doesn't prevent her kidnap, and Sue's ordeal is only just beginning.

About this title

About the Author

Amy Pirnie, pseudonym of novelist Freda Davies, read zoology at Bristol University, where she taught before moving to Pembrokeshire, where she now lives.

Reviews

Under her real name, Freda Davies, Pirnie has written some acclaimed modern-day whodunits, but fans of her Keith Tyrell series may be disappointed by this sequel to 2006's Let Heaven Fall starring London science reporter Sue Bennett. After a powerful bomb wrecks the headquarters of Sue's newspaper, claiming several lives, police ascertain that Sue was the intended victim of the explosive, which was planted in her car outside but detonated by her colleague instead. A letter claiming responsibility comes from a shadowy extremist animal rights group, and Sue receives round-the-clock protection, as the authorities comb through her published stories for clues to which enemy might have been behind the attack. Pirnie moves the story along with clean, brisk prose as more bombings, casualties and attempts on Sue's life follow. Sue demonstrates grit in the face of adversity, but her personality isn't distinctive enough to carry the somewhat predictable action. (Jan.)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786718927
• ISBN 13: 9780786718924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320