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1 online resource (1 audio file (16hr., 45 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Narrated by Jonathan Keeble. |
| Summary |
A fast-moving, stunning new standalone psychological thriller - from the award-winning author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series.Wolf Hadda has lead a charmed life. From humble origins as a woodcutter's son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the girl of his dreams. A knock on the door one morning ends it all. Thrown into prison while protesting his innocence, Wolf retreats into silence. Seven years later prison psychiatrist Alva Ozigbo makes a breakthrough: Wolf begins to talk. Under her guidance he gets parole, returning to his rundown family home in rural Cumbria.But there is a mysterious period in Wolf's youth when he disappeared from home and was known to his employers as the Woodcutter. And now the Woodcutter is back, looking for the truth - and revenge.'An outstanding novel of force and beauty [which shows] Hill's elegant writing, erudition and imagination' The Times'He quickly proves he's lost none of his sardonic wit, punch and complexity … You'll be hard pushed to find another crime writer with his verve … Hill uses every trick in his arsenal to elucidate. The result is an epic, unbeatable mystery' Financial Times'A big, fat mystery which has the enduring power of a myth … Hill proves once again that the driving force of a successful crime novel is character, not incident … The heights of the Dalziel & Pascoe series aside, Hill has never written a better book' Evening Standard'Reginald Hill's books are as good as crime fiction gets and this one is as good as he gets … A tragic, funny standalone mystery … History is rewritten with brilliant originality and verve. The combination of wit and humanity is characteristic of this most inventive of crime novelists - warmly recommended' Literary Review'Hill's plotting is brilliant, the jokes first-rate, the prose supple: it's his humble awe at the English language that enables him to be a minor master of it' Daily Telegraph'One of the most gripping crime novels of the past few years' TLS |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Ex-convicts -- Fiction.
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Revenge -- Fiction.
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Cumbria (England) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Suspense fiction.
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Hill, Keeble.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781471223907 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1471223906 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14631695 |
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