Val McDermid

The Grave Tattoo

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Produktbeschreibung

The award-winning and Number One bestselling Val McDermid crafts an electrifying psychological suspense thriller that mixes history, heritage and heinous crimes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins / HarperCollins UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 237100
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780007344604
• ISBN-10: 0007344600
• Artikelnr.: 27890480

Autorenporträt

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three years as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. Now a full-time writer, she divides her time between Cheshire and Northumberland. Her novels have won international acclaim and a number of prestigious awards, including the Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year, the Anthony Award for best novel, and the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award. Her thriller series featuring criminal profiler Tony Hill has been adapted into the much-loved TV series Wire in the Blood.

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Rezensionen

'An irresistible combination of contemporary psychological thriller and historical mystery' Tess Gerritsen

'Cunning and gripping... A substantially entertaining novel which grips the reader's interest from the first page until the final deeply satisfying sentence' Express

'Trying to solve a 200-year-old mystery becomes increasingly lethal and readable' Mirror

'One of the world's leading mystery writers...Thomas Harris crossed with Agatha Christie, if you will... A great read. England's heritage history has never been so chilling' Observer

'Safe for the squeamish... one of her best' Literary Review