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Minette Walters Disordered Minds
Pan Macmillan 033042002X / 9780330420020 PAPERBACK Good
033042002X Product Description nIn 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother - the one person who understood and protected him. Less than three years later he is dead, driven to suicide by isolation and despair. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he were innocent? Thirty years on, Jonathan Hughes, an anthropologist specialising in social stereotyping, comes across the case by accident. He finds alarming disparities in the evidence and has little doubt that Stamp's conviction was a terrible miscarriage of justice. But how far is Hughes prepared to go in the search for justice? Is the forgotten story of one friendless young man compelling enough to make him leave his books and face his own demons? And with what result? If Stamp didn't murder Grace Jeffries then somebody else did...and sleeping dogs are best left alone... n nAbout the Author nMinette Walters is England's bestselling female crime writer. She has won the CWA John Creasey Award for best first crime novel, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel published in America and two CWA Gold Daggers for Fiction. Minette lives in Dorset with her husband and two children.
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Walters, Minette Lumiere noire
STOCK 2234046181 / 9782234046184 PAPERBACK Good
2234046181 Amazon.fr nJane se réveille dans une clinique, gravement blessée après son soi-disant suicide. L'amnésie est son seul refuge contre les cauchemars qui la hantent dès que resurgissent les souvenirs qui ont précédé son accident. Terrifiée par le pressentiment que sa lucidité retrouvée la mettra face à une horrible vérité, Jane devra lutter avec l'aide du docteur Proterhoe pour affronter son passé, sans savoir que son amnésie est la seule protection dont bénéficie un assassin aux abois. n nDans un style acéré, Minette Walters joue avec la fascination de ses personnages pour la mort et décrit dans toutes ses variations le sentiment de culpabilité qui les écrase et les transforme tantôt en victimes, tantôt en bourreaux. Rarement un livre aura été si loin dans l'analyse de l'enchaînement des individus à leur névrose et dans la description du calvaire de leur rédemption. --Madeleine Sorel --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
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Minette Walters The Chameleon's Shadow
Pan Books 0330449559 / 9780330449557 PAPERBACK Good
0330449559 Editorial Reviews nFrom Publishers Weekly nOne look at Lt. Charles Acland's disfigured face and anyone can see that the Iraqi bomb that blew up two of his men has left him profoundly changed--but have his traumatic brain injuries altered the young British army officer's personality enough to make him a murderer? That's the narrative fuse Edgar-winner Walters (The Devil's Feather) lights to ignite this sizzling psychological thriller. She skillfully interweaves strands of Acland's story, including notes from the military psychiatrist treating him, with the hunt for a serial killer who's claimed at least three victims in South London. Then another man is beaten within an inch of his life not long after Acland's move into the neighborhood. When the lieutenant gets into a near-fatal bar fight with a Pakistani stockbroker, Acland's unlikely savior is a 250-pound lesbian weight lifter and doctor named Jackson. Surprisingly, Jackson is also one of the few convincing characters in this plot-propelled tale, a flaw readers may be willing to ignore--until they slam into a contrived denouement well below Walters's usual standard. (Jan.) nCopyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Bookmarks Magazine nSince her debut novel, The Ice House (1992), best-selling author Minette Walters has risen above the standard fare of mysteries and thrillers and produced works rich in character development and psychological suspense. Despite his rage and instability, Charles Acland proves to be a sympathetic, if somewhat shifty, protagonistâ€no small feat for a writer. Some critics complained of an implausible denouement, and others claimed that the plot became a little unfocused, perhaps because, in the novel’s catalog of social ills, Walters has bitten off slightly more than she can chew. However, Walters’s vivid, convincing characters sustain this powerful and engrossing thriller, which successfully provides a sobering examination of the private and collective damage inflicted by war. nCopyright ? 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Minette Walters The Devil's Feather
Alfred A. Knopf 0330436481 / 9780330436489 PAPERBACK Very Good
0330436481 From Barnes & Noble nTo understand why we're such huge fans of British crime writer Minette Walters, check out The Devil's Feather, an almost unbearably intense psychological thriller that tracks the insidious path of terrorism across three continents. The title derives from a Turkish phrase for a woman who unwittingly sparks sexual arousal in a man. Unfortunately, that's just what correspondent Connie Burns becomes to the psychotic mercenary who kidnaps her in Iraq and subjects her to three days of sadistic torture. But, as Connie soon discovers, that's just the beginning of her nightmares! Blessed with a deliciously macabre imagination and scene-setting skills that are positively cinematic (several of her books have been adapted by BBC-TV), Walters has been delivering the goods since her 1992 crime debut, The Ice House. This deftly crafted tale of terror proves she has not lost her touch. n nFrom the Publisher nIn each of her previous ten critically acclaimed and hugely popular novels, Minette Walters has explored the dark terrain of the human psyche to give us thrillers of exceptional psychological complexity and suspense. Now, in The Devil's Feather, she gives us her most unexpected and electrifying novel yet. n nIn 2002, five women are discovered barbarously murdered in Sierra Leone. Reuters Africa correspondent Connie Burns suspects a British mercenary: a man who seems to turn up in every war-torn corner of Africa, whose reputation for violence and brutality is well-founded and widely known. Connie's suspicions that he's using the chaos of war to act out sadistic, misogynistic fantasies fall on deaf ears-but she's determined to expose him and his secret. n nThe consequences are devastating. n nConnie encounters the man again in Baghdad, but almost immediately she's taken hostage. Released after three desperate days, terrified and traumatized by the experience-fearing that she will never again be the person she once was-Connie retreats to England. She is bent on protecting herself by withholding information about her abduction. But secluded in a remote rented house-where the jealously guarded history of her landlady's family seems to mirror her own fears-she knows that it is only a matter of time before her nightmares become real . . . . n nWith its sinuous plot, its acutely drawn characters, and its blistering suspense, The Devil's Feather keeps us riveted from first to last. It is a dazzling reminder of why Publishers Weekly has dubbed Minette Walters Agatha Christiewith the gloves off. n nThe New York Times - Marilyn Stasio nAlthough Walters has always depicted malicious gossip and abuse of the elderly as serious social evils, by linking this behavior to the methodical savagery committed in wartime, she takes the suspense novel into new territory. n nPublishers Weekly nBritish author Walters's harrowing 12th psychological chiller spotlights violent suffering and hard-won triumph for Connie Burns, a 36-year-old Reuters war correspondent who crosses a sadistic mercenary alternately identified as John Harwood, Kenneth McConnell and Keith MacKenzie. When she finds MacKenzie training Iraqi policemen in Baghdad in 2004, she links him to serial killings in Sierra Leone two years earlier. An enraged MacKenzie kidnaps, tortures, rapes and releases Connie, who is then too traumatized to coherently divulge details of her abduction. She retreats to a country house in Dorset, where she puzzles over the troubled past of the house (a place of anguish) and hesitantly befriends her neighbors, the handsome Dr. Peter Coleman and Jess Derbyshire, a reclusive young woman who helps Connie heal from her ordeal. While she gradually recovers, she also lives with the surety that MacKenzie will come after her again. Walters (Disordered Minds) delivers an intense, engrossingly structured tour de force about survival and the secret of freedom, courage. (Aug.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. n nLibrary Journal nWar correspondent Connie Burns has seen a lot of violence and depravity in her career, but a volatile British mercenary scares her more th
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Minette Walters The Echo
McClelland & Stewart 0771087721 / 9780771087721 UNBOUND Very Good
0771087721 Editorial Reviews - The Echo n n nFrom Barnes & Noble n n nThis Edgar Award winner delivers chilling suspense, brilliantly realized characters, and superb plotting in a story that begins with a homeless man named Billy Blake found dead from starvation in one of the richest neighborhoods of the country. And why did he die in the garage of Amanda Powell, a woman whose wealthy banker husband had disappeared five years earlier with millions? In trying to establish Billy Blake's true identity, Amanda is drawn into a web of suspense and the search for the truth about her own husband. "Walters makes an art of uncertainty by twisting familiar conventions of the traditional British mystery into a stylish, nontraditional mystery in which ambiguity abounds."--The New York Times Book Review. n nFrom the Publisher n n nIn this hypnotic novel of psychological suspense, a homeless man is found starved to death in the garage of a ritzy London home. The police chalk it up to an unfortunate accident, but a journalist, Michael Deacon, is intrigued. Amanda Powell, a socialite whose wealthy husband vanished five years ago after being accused of embezzlement, is just as interested as Michael in finding out who died in her garage. They have no idea that this simple story will unveil a web of deceit that is an appalling as the people behind it. n nPublishers Weekly n n nSinuous plotting and an ability to bring a large cast of characters quickly to life put Walters's (The Dark Room, 1996) fifth suspense novel in the same ballpark as the work of Ruth Rendell. After describing the discovery in London of the body of a homeless man who called himself Billy Blake, Walters presents two extracts from a book about missing persons-the first of many such inserts from books, articles, letters and faxes that move the story along. Was Billy Blake really James Streeter, a merchant banker who disappeared in 1988 with 10 million? Digging into that question is twitchy, talented magazine journalist Michael Deacon, who is attracted to the coolly enigmatic Amanda Poole, the woman in whose garage the dead body was found-in part because she used to be Mrs. James Streeter. Walters makes Deacon her main focus, depicting a man troubled by family failures but compassionate enough to take in such needy strays as a 14-year-old street hustler who knew Blake and a sexually repressed co-worker who eventually helps bring everything into focus. Walters's prose isn't quite as shapely as Rendell's, but she's a superior storyteller who plumbs psychological depths with an acuity that here, as before, will have readers enthralled. 75,000 first printing; $75,000 ad/promo; BOMC main selection; author tour. (Mar.) FYI: Of Walters's five novels, one has won an Edgar Award, one a John Creasey Award and one a Gold Dagger Award. n nLibrary Journal n n nThe discovery of a homeless man's body in the garage of a banker's wife leads her-and a journalist interested in the homeless-to find out more about the man. They also reinvestigate the disappearance, years ago, of the banker and a sizable sum of cash. More well-crafted psychological suspense from a master. n nKirkus Reviews n n nFive years after architect Amanda Powell's husband vanishes amid cries of embezzlement, a homeless man calling himself Billy Blake crawls into her garage and, in full view of her well- stocked freezer, starves himself to death. Falling-star journalist Michael Deacon, sent by his muckraking editor at The Street to get a story about the repentant Thatcherite who paid for a stranger's cremation, doesn't manage to make Amanda weep, but he comes away fascinated both by this enigmatic woman-what secrets is she hiding under that handsome exterior? does she think Billy was her vanished husband? or is she trying to expiate his sins by paying for Billy's obsequies?-and by street preacher/petty thief Billy-what demons of his own led him to mortify himself? why did he choose this place to die? who was he before he became a messianic beggar? Deacon buries himself in the story only to see unexpected figures-an underaged street kid Billy had befriende
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Minette Walters The Scold's Bridle
Pan Books 0330336630 / 9780330336635 PAPERBACK Fair
0330336630 Editorial Reviews n nFrom Publishers Weekly nBritain's Walters, whose The Sculptress won the 1993 Edgar for best novel, excels at depicting monstrously dysfunctional families and the murder and mayhem they wreak; and old Mathilda Gillespie's clan is a humdinger. The daughter of this bitter, snobbish, nasty-minded recluse is a prostitute on dope; the granddaughter's a schoolgirl being blackmailed into theft by a rapist lover. Gillespie's own past contains its share of feeblemindedness, violence, booze, abortion and incest. When the old woman is found dead in her bathtub, a peculiar medieval device over her head (the "scold's bridle" of the title), there is no shortage of suspects in her Dorset village. Both the local woman doctor, one of the few people who could tolerate the dead woman, and the cynical artist husband from whom she is separating spar with empathetic Detective Sgt. Cooper as they search for a killer. The fact that it takes these very bright people longer to figure out the perpetrator than it does a not-especially-smart reader is the chief strike against this otherwise intelligent and enjoyable-if slightly overplotted-mystery, which is essentially an English cozy with distinctly quirky overtones. nCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. n nFrom Library Journal nOddly enough, the suicide death of an ill-tempered, snobbish, rude old lady arouses the indignation of local villagers when they learn she willed her fortune to her physician, Dr. Sarah Blakeney, instead of to her own (nasty) daughter and (thieving) granddaughter. Police suspect murder, though, so their investigation creates problems for Sarah. She and her snide, freeloading husband become enmeshed in the intricacies of the dead woman's life-snippets of which introduce each chapter. Articulate and sophisticated prose, complicated plot, imaginative characters, and psychological intensity give this British title high marks. nCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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