'Chilling, claustrophobic' Irish Times.

Irish Times

'you have to applaud Schenkel as a grand and audacious illusionist and a confident artist in the slight of hand' Crime Squad.

Crimesquad.com

'Nerve-shatteringly realistic ... Extraordinary' Independent.

Independent

It had been a normal day at work. Monika was locking up, ready to head home, when the man arrived. She didn't see his fist until it was far too late. Bundled into a car, tied up and taken in darkness to an old mill in the thick of a forest, she has been flung into a bunker. It is only now, as time passes and she sees her attacker in the light, that she notices the startling resemblance to someone from her very dark and buried past. Someone she never wanted to see again.
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Dark, disturbing and appallingly relevant, another grim but gripping tale from one of the most successful international writers of modern crime.

Product details

ISBN
9781849161145
Published
2011
Publisher
Quercus Publishing; riverrun
Weight
128 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
134 mm
Thickness
14 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
224

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Biographical note

Andrea Maria Schenkel lives near Regensburg in Bavaria. Her first two novels, The Murder Farm and Ice Cold, both also published by Quercus in the UK, won first place in the German Crime Prize in consecutive years - making Schenkel the first author to achieve this. The Murder Farm has gone on to become a phenomenal bestseller, as has Ice Cold.