1989

Informationen zum Autor Val McDermid is an international number one bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than forty languages. Her multi-award-winning series and standalone novels have been adapted for TV and radio, most notably the Wire in the Blood series featuring clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan. The Karen Pirie novels have now been adapted for a major ITV series. Val has been chair of the judges for the Wellcome Book Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize, and has served as a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Man Booker Prize and the Royal Society Book Prize. She is the recipient of eight honorary doctorates and is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is a visiting professor in the Centre of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Among her many awards are the CWA Diamond Dagger recognising lifetime achievement and the Theakston's Old Peculier award for Outstanding Contribution to Crime Writing. Val is also an experienced broadcaster and much-sought-after columnist and commentator across print media. www.valmcdermid.com Instagram @quineofcrime Klappentext THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 1989. The world is on the brink of revolution and journalist Allie Burns is a woman on a mission. When she discovers a lead about the exploitation of society's most vulnerable, Allie is determined to investigate and give voice to the silenced. Elsewhere, a ticking clock begins the countdown to a murder. As Allie begins to connect the dots and edges closer to exposing the truth, it is more shocking than she ever imagined. There's nothing like a killer story, and to tell it, Allie must risk her freedom and her life . . . The brand-new unmissable, heart-stopping thriller from number one bestseller Val McDermid ___________ Praise for the Allie Burns series: ' McDermid is at her considerable best' GUARDIAN 'Irresistible' PATRICIA CORNWELL 'A brilliant novel by a supremo of the genre' PETER JAMES 'Outstanding' SPECTATOR 'Another masterpiece' DAVID BALDACCI 'Sensational. One of Britain's most accomplished writers' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'A masterly setter of scene' SCOTSMAN Val McDermid's masterful new thriller, Silent Bones, is out now! Vorwort The second pulse-racing thriller in the era-defining, #1 bestselling Allie Burns series Zusammenfassung The second pulse-racing thriller in the era-defining, #1 bestselling Allie Burns series...

Vorwort
The second pulse-racing thriller in the era-defining, #1 bestselling Allie Burns series

Klappentext

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
1989. The world is on the brink of revolution and journalist Allie Burns is a woman on a mission. When she discovers a lead about the exploitation of society's most vulnerable, Allie is determined to investigate and give voice to the silenced.

Elsewhere, a ticking clock begins the countdown to a murder. As Allie begins to connect the dots and edges closer to exposing the truth, it is more shocking than she ever imagined. There's nothing like a killer story, and to tell it, Allie must risk her freedom and her life . . .

The brand-new unmissable, heart-stopping thriller from number one bestseller Val McDermid
___________

Praise for the Allie Burns series:

*'*McDermid is at her considerable best' GUARDIAN

'Irresistible' PATRICIA CORNWELL

'A brilliant novel by a supremo of the genre' PETER JAMES

'Outstanding' SPECTATOR

'Another masterpiece' DAVID BALDACCI

'Sensational. One of Britain's most accomplished writers' SUNDAY EXPRESS

'A masterly setter of scene' SCOTSMAN

Val McDermid's masterful new thriller, Silent Bones, is out now!

Zusammenfassung
The second pulse-racing thriller in the era-defining, #1 bestselling Allie Burns series