Val McDermid

Gebundenes Buch

1989

The brand-new thriller from the No.1 bestseller

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of six honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes full time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.

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Produktdetails

• Allie Burns
• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 166mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9780751583106
• ISBN-10: 0751583103
• Artikelnr.: 63118179

Rezensionen

1989, by reigning queen of UK crime Val McDermid, is a sequel to her change-of-pace 1979 , the memorable beginning to a quintet of books set in a Glaswegian tabloid office . . . This is every bit as accomplished as its predecessor, with the same crisp sense of an increasingly distant era Financial Times