Dark and atmospheric with breathless pacing
- Linwood Barclay,
Little Sister is the third novel in David Hewson's gripping Detective Pieter Vos series set in Amsterdam.Her death will haunt us forever. Now the price must be paid.Kim and Mia Timmers were just eleven years old when their family was killed. The sisters were accused of murdering the lead singer of a world-famous pop band in the Dutch fishing village of Volendam, believing him to be responsible for their family's deaths. The evidence seemed irrefutable at the time and the sisters were imprisoned in Marken, a local psychiatric institution. Now, ten years later, they are due for release.Pieter Vos, a detective with the Amsterdam police, is given cause to re-open the case when the girls disappear along with the nurse responsible for escorting them to a halfway house. When the nurse's corpse washes up on the beach at Marken, it becomes apparent that the institution holds the key to the investigation. And it seems that Vos's boss, De Groot, has something to hide which is relevant to the case.Then, the case takes an unexpected turn when it becomes clear that someone is posing as Little Jo - Kim and Mia's other sister - who was supposedly murdered along with their parents ten years ago . . .
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Little Sister is the third title in the Detective Pieter Vos series, David Hewson's atmospheric crime novels set in the city of canals and coffee shops.
People on the island understood there was some kind of psychiatric institution on their doorstep.
Only a few knew it housed a handful of the most disturbed female juvenile criminals in the Netherlands.
The Timmers sisters, Kim and Mia, were just eleven years old when they were accused of murdering the lead singer of a world-famous pop band in the Dutch fishing village of Volendam. They believed he was responsible for the death of their family, including their sister known as Little Jo.
Ten years have passed and it is now time for their release from Marken, the local psychiatric institution.
Pieter Vos, a detective with the Amsterdam police, is given cause to re-open the case when the girls disappear along with the nurse responsible for escorting them to a halfway house. The investigation uncovers a shocking cover-up which leaves one of Vos's closest colleagues under scrutiny.
Praise for David Hewson
'Dark and atmospheric with breathless pacing'
Linwood Barclay
'A novel in the hugely experienced hands of David Hewson that defies expectation . . . Tight, lean, almost like a film script'
Daily Express
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Dark and atmospheric with breathless pacing
Little Sister is the third title in the Detective Pieter Vos series, David Hewson's atmospheric crime novels set in the city of canals and coffee shops.
The Detective Pieter Vos novels by David Hewson, author of The Killing, form a gripping crime-thriller series set in Amsterdam. Meticulously researched, pacey, dark and atmospheric, The House of Dolls and the three stories that follow are a masterclass in crime writing, perfect for fans of the ‘scandi-noir’ genre.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781447293408
Publisert
2016-09-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Pan Books
Vekt
485 gr
Høyde
203 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
448
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