A Life to Kill is the seventh thrilling installment in Matthew Hall's twice CWA Gold Dagger nominated Coroner Jenny Cooper series.If they're hiding something, we've got a right to know. We've got a right to know what Kenny died for . . .The day they've all been waiting for is at hand. The last British combat soldiers in Helmand are counting the minutes until their departure for home. For their excited families in Highcliffe, it spells the end of an agonizing six month wait. But in the final hours, disaster strikes. Nineteen-year-old Private Pete 'Skippy' Lyons is abducted and the patrol sent out to locate him is ambushed. One killed, two injured. One still missing in action . . .Their loved ones are left desperate for answers the Army won't provide. How could Private Lyons have been snatched from a heavily fortified command post? And why are officers trying to disguise what happened during the mission to save him?Their only hope lies with Coroner Jenny Cooper, who must take on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried along with the boy soldiers. But in a town filled with secrets and rumours, it's not only the Army that has something to hide.The Jenny Cooper novels have been adapted into a hit TV series, Coroner, made for CBC and NBC Universal starring Serinda Swan and Roger Cross.
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Another mysterious investigation by Coroner Jenny Cooper, a fearless yet human heroine and the last hope for the unjustly killed. Matthew Hall's novels have been adapted into the hit TV series, Coroner.
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`If they’re hiding something, we’ve got a right to know. We’ve got a right to know what Kenny died for’ The day their families have been waiting for has arrived. After an agonizing six month wait, the last British combat soldiers in Helmand are coming home. But in the final hours, disaster strikes. Nineteen-year-old Private Pete Lyons is abducted, and the patrol sent out to locate him is ambushed. One killed, two injured, and Lyons nowhere to be found . . . Their loved ones are left desperate for answers, but the army refuses to talk. Their only hope lies with Coroner Jenny Cooper, who must take on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried. But in a town filled with secrets, it’s not only the army that has something to hide . . . `A terrific series’ Financial Times `Hall’s Gold Dagger-nominated books, quite simply, get better each time’ Independent on Sunday
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Hall's Gold Dagger-nominated books, quite simply, get better each time
Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates . . .
Who will speak for the dead? There is only one woman brave enough.Newly divorced and separated from her only child, Jenny Cooper trades her job as a hard-pressed family lawyer for the position of Severn Vale Coroner, hoping to rebuild her shattered life. But peace is the last thing she finds. Her very first case in the first book in the series, The Coroner, is that of a young teenage boy found hanged in a privately run prison. Jenny’s fight for justice pits her against the full might of a legal and political Establishment determined not to let the truth get in the way of business. A tough, yet often vulnerable force of nature determined to give voice to the voiceless, Jenny risks her safety and her sanity to bring the darkest secrets into the light.Jenny’s investigations take her into the worlds of terrorism, religious cults, international aviation and to the battlefields of Afghanistan. A fearless yet human heroine in the mould of Erin Brokovitch, Jenny is the last hope for the unjustly killed and those left behind. The Coroner Jenny Cooper series by Matthew Hall has been adapted into a hit TV series, Coroner, made for CBC and NBC Universal starring Serinda Swan and Roger Cross.
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ISBN
9780330530095
Publisert
2017-06-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Pan Books
Vekt
308 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
464

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Matthew (formerly M. R.) Hall is an award-winning screenwriter and former barrister. Educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Worcester College, Oxford, he lives a stone's throw from the Welsh border in Herefordshire. He is married to journalist Patricia Carswell and they have two sons, Tom and Will. His other loves are bee-keeping, boxing, trail running and native woodlands. His books in the Coroner Jenny Cooper series include The Coroner, The Disappeared, The Redeemed, The Flight, The Chosen Dead, The Burning and A Life to Kill.