Sliver of Truth - Ridley Jones

Zusatztext “Full of suspense and breathless tension.” — South Florida Sun-Sentinel   “Unger’s taut prose grabs the reader from word one and never lets go.” —Lisa Gardner! author of Catch Me “Double feints and triple suspense plays . . . make Sliver of Truth compulsive reading.” — Daily News “Ridley is a smart! engaging narrator.” — St. Petersburg Times   “Unger’s plot twists and turns will force you to stay up past your bedtime! just as you do with the books of . . . James Patterson and Michael Connelly.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch   “A fresh! likeable voice.” — Detroit Free Press “Unger’s plot bursts from the starting gate and never lets up! as Ridley pieces together the puzzle that is her past.” —Booklist (starred review) “A fast-paced story that readers will find difficult to put down.” —Library Journal “Completely irresistible.” — Bookreporter   “Unger’s sensational second thriller puts her in the same league as such genre masters as Peter Straub and Peter Abrahams.” — Publishers Weekly “Unger is a talented storyteller.” —The Tampa Tribune Informationen zum Autor Lisa Unger is an award-winning  New York Times  and international bestselling author. Her novels have sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. and have been translated into 26 different languages. Klappentext Ridley Jones is on a mission to find a ghost from her past . . . a very deadly ghost.In Beautiful Lies, Ridley Jones stepped off a street corner and into an abyss of violence, deception, and fear. She is being a lot more careful about where she steps and trying to get on with her life when another seemingly mundane act-picking up a few envelopes of prints at a photo lab-puts her at the nexus of a global network of crime. A shadowy figure of a man appears in almost every picture she's taken in the last year, lurking just far enough away to make identification impossible. Everyone from the federal government to the criminal underworld wants to know who the man is, but the only thing Ridley knows for sure is that she has to get to the truth about herself and her past if she's ever going to find her way home. Leseprobe 1 I'm running but I can't run much farther. The pain in my side already has me limping; there's fire in my lungs. I can't hear his footfalls. But I know he's not far away. I know now that he's been right beside me all my life in one way or another. I'm the light; he's the shadow. We've coexisted without ever meeting. If I'd been a good girl, the girl I was raised to be, I never would have known him. But it's too late for regrets. I'm on Hart Island in the Bronx, a place known as Potter's Field. It's the city cemetery for the unknown and indigent--a grim and frightening place. How we've all wound up here is a long story, but I know the story will end here--maybe just for some, maybe for all of us. A tall abandoned building that seems to sag upon itself looms ahead of me. It's a darker night than I have ever known, in more ways than one. The sliver of moon is hidden behind a thick cloud cover. It's hard to see but I watch as he disappears through a door that hangs crooked on its hinges. I follow. "Ridley!" The call comes from behind me. But I don't answer. I just keep moving until I am standing at the entrance to the building. I hesitate there, looking at the crooked, sighing structure and wondering if it's not too late to turn around. Then I see him, up ahead of me. I call out but he doesn't answer me, just turns and slowly starts to move away. I follow. If I valued my life and my sanity, I'd let him get away and hope he did the same for me. We could go back to the way things have been. He dwelling in a world I never even knew existed, me going about my very ordinary life, writing magazine article...

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Unger
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2013
• EAN: 9780307949684
• ISBN: 978-0-307-94968-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 29 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage crime/Black Lizard; Vintage crime/Black Lizard
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense