Looking For Trouble - Staincliffe, Cath

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Auteur(s) : Staincliffe, Cath

Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/05/2013

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 272

Expédition : 202

Dimensions : 19.8 x 13.1 x 30.0

ISBN : 9781780339979

Résumé :

She's a single parent. A private eye. And liking it. Until, that is, Mrs Hobbs turns up asking Sal Kilkenny to find her missing son.Sal's search takes her through the Manchester underworld, a wasteland of deprivation and petty theft, of well-heeled organised crime and, ultimately, murder. Would she have taken the job on if she had known what she was getting herself into?

Actually, yes. Sal is on fire with a desire to see justice done and to avenge the death of a young lad whose only crime was knowing too much...

This is the first Sal Kilkenny mystery, serialised on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

Praise for Cath Staincliffe:

'A book about courage and compromise, about how sometimes it's kinder and braver to lie.Stunning.'
Anne Cleeves

'Modest, compassionate... a solid ingenious plotter with a sharp eye for domestic detail'Literary Review

'Complex and satisfying' The Sunday Times

'about as good as the British private eye novel gets' Time Out

'It's always exciting to see a writer get better and better, and Cath Staincliffe is doing just that'Val McDermid

'an engrossing read'Sunday Telegraph

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Biographie:
Cath Staincliffe is an award winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV's hit series Blue Murder. Cath's books have been shortlisted for the CWA Best First Novel award. She was joint winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2012. Letters To My Daughter's Killer was selected for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club on ITV3 in 2014. Cath also writes the Scott & Bailey books based on the popular ITV series. She lives with her family in Manchester....

Sommaire:
Cath Staincliffe is an award winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV's hit series Blue Murder. Cath's books have been shortlisted for the CWA Best First Novel award. She was joint winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2012. Letters To My Daughter's Killer was selected for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club on ITV3 in 2014. Cath also writes the Scott & Bailey books based on the popular ITV series. She lives with her family in Manchester....

Struggling single mother Sal Kilkenny is compassionate, gutsy, bright enough to know when it's clever to be scared and tenacious as a Rottweiler. Cath Staincliffe's tour of the mean streets and leafy suburbs of Manchester reveals the city as the natural successor to Marlowe's Los Angeles. With a cast of characters drawn from the gutter to the high ranks of business and officialdom, she probes the city's underbelly in an exciting tale of corruption, exploitation and brutality. -- Val McDermid Remarkable for its keen sense of actuality...and warmed by its affection for family and friends. Compassionate, exciting, and down-to-earth. Infused also with that rare and precious ingredient: true feeling. Literary Review Sal Kilkenny manages a fine juggling act with a horribly messy case and a hectic home life. -- Liza Cody