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Zusatztext With locations ranging from the city's bustling quayside to rural Northumberland villages! Hannah's debut is heavy on the atmosphere as well as the specifics of a creepily icky criminal. Informationen zum Autor Mari Hannah is a multi-award-winning author, whose authentic voice is no happy accident. A former probation officer, she lives in rural Northumberland with her partner, an ex-murder detective. Mari turned to script-writing when her career was cut short following an assault on duty. Her debut, The Murder Wall , (adapted from a script she developed with the BBC) won her the Polari First Book Prize. Its follow-up, Settled Blood , picked up a Northern Writers' Award. Mari's body of work won her the CWA Dagger in the Library 2017, an incredible honour to receive so early in her career. In 2019, she was voted DIVA Wordsmith of the Year. In 2020, she won Capital Crime International Crime Writing Festival's Crime Book of the Year for Without a Trace. Her Kate Daniels series is in development with Stephen Fry's production company, Sprout Pictures. Klappentext Who knows when a killer will call? Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian village, Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the vicious killing of a man on Newcastle's Quayside gives Daniels her first case as Senior Investigating Officer and a second chance to get it right. When Daniels recognizes the corpse but fails to disclose the fact, her personal life suddenly collides into her professional life. And - even worse than this - she is now being watched. As Daniels steps closer to finding a killer, a killer is only a breath away from claiming his next victim . . . 'Brutal and engaging. Mari Hannah writes with a sharp eye and a dark heart' Peter James 'A satisfyingly meaty read' Guardian Follow Mari Hannah on Twitter at twitter.com/ mariwriter www.marihannah.com Where you stare death in the face . . . A reissue of Mari Hannah's Polari Prize-winning first novel, featuring DCI Kate Daniels. Zusammenfassung The Murder Wall is Mari Hannah's first gripping crime novel featuring DCI Kate Daniels. Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town, Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle’s Quayside gives Daniels another chance to get it right, and her first case as Senior Investigating Officer. When Daniels recognizes the corpse, but fails to disclose the fact, her personal life swerves dangerously into her professional life. But much worse, she is now being watched. As Daniels steps closer to finding a killer, a killer is only a breath away from claiming his next victim . . . ...
