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Walters, Minette Acid Row
Macmillan 2001 0333907485 / 9780333907481 First edition-first printing Hardcover Fine Fine Book
Mint condition.Macmillan,2001.First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small creases,nicks and scratch on the Dj cover),both in mint condition.Illustrated with b/w drawings.The book is new with light shelf wear on the outer edge of the pages,small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book.Price un-clipped.344pp.First edition. This is another paragraph Review: From the first page, Minette Walters assaults your sensibilities with her psychological thriller Acid Row; she grabs you hard and fast, sustains the onslaught throughout and hits you with a knock-out final blow. Straightaway she informs you that the abduction of 10-year-old Amy and the revelation that a paedophile has been relocated to Acid Row, a place of deprivation where literacy was poor, drugs endemic and fights commonplace, and where children were left to run wild, leads to rioting and five hours of savagery leaves three dead. n nEven with this prior knowledge, Walters' skill as a novelist never leaves you complacent and nothing prepares you for the horror and tragedy of her novel's shocking denouement. Monsters and heroes are found in the most unlikely places, subverting all your preconceptions: third-time pregnant teenager Melanie incites the protest only to block the rioters when they turn violent; Big, black Jimmy James is just out of prison but risks his neck to save the life of an injured policewoman; and the 71-year-old asthmatic father of the so-called paedophile turns out to be more sadistic than your worst imaginings. n nA page-turning novel doesn't have to be particularly well written or intelligent to hold you in its grip but occasionally one comes along with both qualities and leaves you reeling in its wake. This is it. Acid Row's numerous narratives are so tightly packed and interconnected that no detail is spurious and everything is channelled towards suspense and shattering revelations. Walters just goes from strength to strength. --Nicola Perry n nReview nBack on form with a vengeance, this is another taut thriller from English crime queen, Minette Walters. A chance remark made in Acid Row, a run down council estate, is the nemesis for scenes of horrific violence as a peaceful protest march spirals out of control into full-scale war. GP Sophie Morrison is trapped inside a known paedophile's house with two men. Held hostage by one of them, she attempts to get word to the outside of her plight unknowing of the fact that the police are unable to assist due to all entrances to the estate being blocked by overturned and burning cars. Jimmy James, freshly released from prison, tries to avoid the trouble but is slowly but irrevocably drawn into it against his will. Melanie and her mother Gaynor, instigators of the protest, gradually come to terms with the terror of what they appear to have unleashed and DCI Tyler struggles to find answers to the missing girl's disappearance at the same time as trying to control events from outside the borders of the estate. Based on the scenes in Portsmouth during the hunt for Sarah Payne, Walters highlights the ignorance of those who opt to drop out of education and exist on a life of drugs and crime. Page-turningly tense throughout, she skips between the search for a missing ten year old girl and the scenes gradually unfolding in the fortress-like estate. From the views of those involved in the peaceful protest to those suffering at the hands of the rebel insurgents, the pace never lets up till the final, murderous ending. - Lucy Watson
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Walters, Minette Disordered Minds [Illustrated]
Macmillan 2003 1405034165 / 9781405034166 First edition-first printing Hardcover Fine Fine Book
Fine condition.Macmillan,2003.First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the front cover) with Dj(two small creases and scratches on the Dj cover),both in fine condition.The book is as new with light shelf wear on the outer edge of the pages,small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book,small crease on the edge of the pages.423pp.Price un-clipped.First edition. This is another paragraph From Publishers Weekly: Bestseller Walters (Fox Evil, etc.) delivers another complex tale of murder and deception. In 1970, 20-year-old Howard Stamp is convicted of brutally killing his 57-year-old grandmother with a carving knife; three years later, he commits suicide in prison. In 2002, London anthropologist Jonathan Hughes includes the Stamp case in his book, Disordered Minds, which examines infamous miscarriages of justice. The mentally slow Stamp may have been coerced into confessing to the murder. George (Georgina) Gardener, an elderly councilor living in Stamp's hometown of Bournemouth, has come to believe in Stamp's innocence herself and asks Jonathan for help in clearing the young man's name. The two get off to a rocky start, but they form an uneasy alliance that gradually grows into a deep friendship. Watching this relationship develop is one of the novel's more entertaining aspects. Walters uses to good effect the multiple viewpoints of her numerous characters, as well as flashbacks, letters, newspaper articles and e-mails to reveal the truth behind the decades-old murder. However, as in life, there are no easy answers, and although the ending may disappoint some, it caps perfectly all that has come before it.
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Walters, Minette Fox Evil
Macmillan 2002 1405001097 / 9781405001090 First edition-first printing Hardcover Fine Fine Book
Mint condition.Macmillan,2002.First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover),both in mint condition.The book is new with light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages,light shelf wear on the Dj cover.415pp.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding him refuses to go away. Why? Because he's guilty? Or because resentful women in the isolated Dorset village where he lives rule the roost? Shenstead is a place of too few people and too many secrets. Friendless and alone, his reclusive behaviour begins to alarm his London-based solicitor, Mark Ankerton, whose alarm deepens when he discovers that James has become the victim of a relentless campaign which accuses him of far worse than the death of his wife. Allegations which he refuses to challenge ...So begins a bitter war of resentment, and an unlikely alliance between strangers, whose clearer eyes and compassionate natures reveal evil for what it really is...
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Walters, Minette The Devil's Feather :
Macmillan Books 2005 1405050985 / 9781405050982 First UK edition-first printing Hardcover Fine Fine Book
Fine condition.Macmillan,2005.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small nicks & scratch on the Dj cover),both in fine condition.Illustrated with a b/w photo.The book is new with light shelf wear,small pencil mark impression on the edge of the title page.357pp.Price un-clipped.
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Walters, Minette The Echo
Macmillan 1997 0333659325 / 9780333659328 First edition-first printing Hardcover Fine Fine Book
Fine condition.Macmillan,1997.First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in fine condition.The book is new with light shelf wear,two small nicks on the edges of the pages.Price un-clipped.343pp.
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Walters, Minette The Shape of Snakes
Macmillan 2000 0333748603 / 9780333748602 First edition-first printing Hardcover Fine Fine Book
Fine condition.Macmillan,2000.First edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover),both in fine condition.Illustrated with b/w photos,drawings.The book is new with light shelf wear on the Dj cover,very small mark and nick on the outer edges of the pages.380pp.Price un-clipped.
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