Ancienne avocate spécialisée dans les droits de l'homme ayant côtoyé des personnalités comme Snoop Dogg ou Winnie Mandela, Alice Clark-Platts se consacre désormais à l'écriture. Pour son troisième roman, The Flower Girls, Alice Clark-Platts s'inspire d'un terrible fait divers survenu en 1993 : le meurtre de James Bulger, âgé de deux ans, par deux jeunes garçons, une affaire qui défraya la chronique et fascina l'opinion publique.
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Erica Martin Thriller
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A tense and powerful police procedural set in the city of Durham where a murdered preacher may be more monstrous than his own killer.
There's the lost.
There's the missing.
And there's the taken.
She asked me once if we had any secrets, and I shook my head.
'No secrets between us,' she said.
'No,' I answered. 'Never ever.'
In a Durham hotel at dawn, celebrated preacher Tristan Snow is murdered as he prays. None of the other guests - not even his daughter, his wife, or her sister - saw or heard anything.
But then again, they all had a motive for murder.
Detective Inspector Erica Martin is confronted by secrets and lies, lost in a case where nothing is what it seems.
With no answers, DI Martin is consumed by questions: Is anyone in this family innocent? When the victim might have been a monster - is there such a thing as justice? And does anyone deserve to die?
Praise for Alice Clark-Platts:
'Had me on the edge of my sun lounger. Excellent plotting and a genuinely unguessable resolution to the mystery'
Sophie Hannah
'Grabbed me from the first page and wouldn't let go. A compelling read, beautifully written ... A tense, captivating tale, brilliantly told'
Rachel Abbott
'A gripping, highly charged thriller'
Ralph Fiennes
'A brilliantly plotted and utterly gripping thriller'
Emma Kavanagh
'Superb ... A very assured page-turning storm I read in one sitting'
Stav Sherez
'Intriguing and sinister with masterful plotting and tension'
Mel Sherratt
Title : The Taken
EAN : 9780718181116
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
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