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Just after dawn, Caren inspects the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house she manages. Back at her office, the gardener calls to tell her she missed something. Something terrible.At a distance, she didn't see. A young woman lying face down in a shallow grave, her throat cut clean.So there will be police, asking questions. The family who own Belle Vie will have to be told. There's a school group on the way to visit. Where is Donovan, the member of staff no one has seen? And all the time, Caren is thinking that there are only so many keys, only so many ways in to Belle Vie with its six foot high perimeter fence. And as she lives on site with her daughter, she wonders: how much danger are they in?A thriller with as much heart as it has pace, Attica Locke combines a riveting mystery with a shattering story of how our history is never just the past.
Just after dawn, Caren inspects the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house she manages. Back at her office, the gardener calls to tell her she missed something. Something terrible.At a distance, she didn't see. A young woman lying face down in a shallow grave, her throat cut clean.So there will be police, asking questions. The family who own Belle Vie will have to be told. There's a school group on the way to visit. Where is Donovan, the member of staff no one has seen? And all the time, Caren is thinking that there are only so many keys, only so many ways in to Belle Vie with its six foot high perimeter fence. And as she lives on site with her daughter, she wonders: how much danger are they in?A thriller with as much heart as it has pace, Attica Locke combines a riveting mystery with a shattering story of how our history is never just the past.
Über den Autor
Attica Locke is the author of Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. She worked onthe adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere andAva DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
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Genre: | Krimis & Thriller |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 412 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781846688041 |
ISBN-10: | 1846688043 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Locke, Attica |
Hersteller: | Profile Books Ltd |
Maße: | 198 x 128 x 32 mm |
Von/Mit: | Attica Locke |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.07.2013 |
Gewicht: | 0,353 kg |
Über den Autor
Attica Locke is the author of Bluebird, Bluebird which won the CWA Steel Dagger and an Edgar Award; Pleasantville, which won the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction; Black Water Rising, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and The Cutting Season, a national bestseller and winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. She worked onthe adaptation of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere andAva DuVernay's Netflix series about the Central Park Five, When They See Us. A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
---|---|
Genre: | Krimis & Thriller |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | 412 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781846688041 |
ISBN-10: | 1846688043 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Locke, Attica |
Hersteller: | Profile Books Ltd |
Maße: | 198 x 128 x 32 mm |
Von/Mit: | Attica Locke |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.07.2013 |
Gewicht: | 0,353 kg |
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