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Zusatztext "Hill combines an edgy tale of betrayal and revenge with the trappings of a modern-day fairy tale in this sly! enchanting stand-alone." Informationen zum Autor Reginald Hill, acclaimed English crime writer, was a native of Cumbria and a former resident of Yorkshire, the setting for his novels featuring Superintendent Andy Dalziel and DCI Peter Pascoe. Their appearances won Hill numerous awards, including a CWA Golden Dagger and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award. The Dalziel and Pascoe stories were also adapted into a hugely popular BBC TV series. Hill died in 2012. Klappentext Wolf Hadda’s life has been a fairy tale. From his humble origins as a Cumbrian woodcutter’s son, he has risen to become a hugely successful entrepreneur, happily married to the woman of his dreams. A knock on the door one morning ends it all. Universally reviled, thrown into prison while protesting his innocence, abandoned by friends and family, Wolf retreats into silence. Seven years later, prison psychiatrist Alva Ozigbo makes a breakthrough. Wolf begins to talk, and under her guidance he is paroled, returning to his family home in rural Cumbria. But there was 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. Can Alva intervene before his pursuit of vengeance takes him to a place from which he can never come back? The Woodcutter is a treat that both lovers of the Dalziel and Pascoe series and newcomers to the always masterful work of Reginald Hill will devour. Zusammenfassung "Thefertility of Hill's imagination! the range of his power! the sheer quality ofhis literary style never ceases to delight." —Val McDermid!author of Fever of the Bone In a stand-alone psychological thrillerfrom acclaimed mystery master Reginald Hill! a mysterious ex-con returns to hisremote childhood home on a deadly hunt for revenge. Combining the chillingatmospheres of Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs ! the narrativeingenuity of P.D. James’s The Private Patient ! and the compellingcharacterizations of Hill’s own Dalziel and Pascoeseries! Hill delivers a frightful! fast-paced study of suspense at its mostsinister in The Woodcutter . ...
