Breaker, The(S598)
by Minette Walters | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0399144927 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0399144927 Global Overview for this book
2 journalers for this copy...
hardback; 351pp; published, 1999
FROM OUR EDITORS
Here's a snippet from an interview Mystery editor Andrew LeCount conducted with the award-winning Minette Walters. To read the complete interview, click the "Interviews & Essays" link on the left sidebar of this page.
B&N.com: Seems to me that one challenging aspect of writing in the English style is that, since you introduce fewer characters into the fray, it's so much more difficult to keep the killer's identity a secret.
MW: I do think it's a very sophisticated voice, the English voice, actually. And the other thing we can't do, of course, Raymond Chandler said very famously -- when you run out of ideas you bring a man into the room with a gun in his hand [laughs]. I mean, it's so flippant a remark since he's such a great writer, but we can't do that. It's quite difficult to suddenly bring in somebody, to inject that type of action. It lacks verisimilitude since there are very few guns in our society. We've just got rid of all the handguns after a law was passed. Now there are no handguns; I would love America to try the same thing.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Twelve hours after a woman's body is washed up on a deserted shore on the south coast of England, her traumatized three-year-old daughter is discovered twenty miles away, alone and apparently abandoned.... The obvious suspect is a young actor, a handsome loner obsessed with pornography, who lies about his relationship with the murdered woman. But as the investigation progresses, police attention shifts to the woman'shusband. Was he in fact on a business trip to Liverpool the night she died? Was she indeed the "respectable woman" he claims her to have been? Did he love her or hate her? And more disturbing, why does his little daughter scream in horror every time he tries to pick her up?
SYNOPSIS
Crime fiction just doesn't get any better than that of the Edgar Award-winning Minette Walters. Her chilling latest, , delivers a sharp, intense, twisting-and-turning plot that'll have you sleeping with the lights bright -- guaranteed. A woman is found murdered and raped facedown on the beach, and only her mute daughter knows who the killer is. Some say you always hurt the one you love. Is that the case in this spine-tingler?
FROM OUR EDITORS
Here's a snippet from an interview Mystery editor Andrew LeCount conducted with the award-winning Minette Walters. To read the complete interview, click the "Interviews & Essays" link on the left sidebar of this page.
B&N.com: Seems to me that one challenging aspect of writing in the English style is that, since you introduce fewer characters into the fray, it's so much more difficult to keep the killer's identity a secret.
MW: I do think it's a very sophisticated voice, the English voice, actually. And the other thing we can't do, of course, Raymond Chandler said very famously -- when you run out of ideas you bring a man into the room with a gun in his hand [laughs]. I mean, it's so flippant a remark since he's such a great writer, but we can't do that. It's quite difficult to suddenly bring in somebody, to inject that type of action. It lacks verisimilitude since there are very few guns in our society. We've just got rid of all the handguns after a law was passed. Now there are no handguns; I would love America to try the same thing.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Twelve hours after a woman's body is washed up on a deserted shore on the south coast of England, her traumatized three-year-old daughter is discovered twenty miles away, alone and apparently abandoned.... The obvious suspect is a young actor, a handsome loner obsessed with pornography, who lies about his relationship with the murdered woman. But as the investigation progresses, police attention shifts to the woman'shusband. Was he in fact on a business trip to Liverpool the night she died? Was she indeed the "respectable woman" he claims her to have been? Did he love her or hate her? And more disturbing, why does his little daughter scream in horror every time he tries to pick her up?
SYNOPSIS
Crime fiction just doesn't get any better than that of the Edgar Award-winning Minette Walters. Her chilling latest, , delivers a sharp, intense, twisting-and-turning plot that'll have you sleeping with the lights bright -- guaranteed. A woman is found murdered and raped facedown on the beach, and only her mute daughter knows who the killer is. Some say you always hurt the one you love. Is that the case in this spine-tingler?
Journal Entry 2 by SAMMY-SAMSEL at U.S. Post Office in Kirkwood, Missouri USA on Friday, April 1, 2005
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Taylor @ E. Monroe; atop drive-by mailbox
Taylor @ E. Monroe; atop drive-by mailbox
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