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Zusatztext The canal that runs through the centre of Sheffield used to carry the industrialfreight for the steel industry is being renovated for leisure pursuits!but away from the city centre developments! the canal is overgrown! rundown and deserted. An arts trust has established a small but innovativegallery in one of the old warehouses by the canal! and Eliza Eliot! thecurator! sees her career about to take off when she's given the opportunityto show the latest exhibition by well-known artist Daniel Flynn. The exhibitionis a series of reworkings of Brueghel's painting! The Triumph of Death!and Eliza begins to realize that Flynn may have more complex motives forallowing his work to be shown at a small gallery in a provincial city.But she is distracted! first by the repercussions of the murder! four yearsbefore! of a friend's daughter! followed by the friend's death in a caraccident just before the book opens. Then a young woman who lives in oneof the flats above the gallery is found dead in the canal! while a teenagegirl also goes missing in an apparently unrelated case. Events take a sinisterturn at the gallery as the nightmare images from Daniel Flynn's exhibitionstart to spill out into the real world. Is this the work of a psychopath!or is there some link between present violence and the tragedy of fouryears ago? Informationen zum Autor Danuta Reah lives in Sheffield with her artist husband. She currently works as an education consultant and as a university lecturer in English language. She is a fan of comics and graphic novels, and in her spare time draws cartoons which have appeared in textbooks and at scientific conferences. She has published textbooks for English Language students. She also writes as Carla Banks. Only Darkness is her first novel. Klappentext Disturbing, atmospheric suspense novel from the author of Only Darkness, Silent Playgrounds and Night Angels: 'Dark, edgy and compelling' The Times Beyond the new city centre developments, the old Sheffield canal is overgrown, run-down and deserted. Signs of regeneration creep along its towpaths, including a small, innovative gallery housed in one of the warehouses. But between the renovations it's a dark and lonely place ? the perfect site for an exhibition reworking Brueghel's The Triumph of Death. For Elisa Eliot, the curator, the chance to show well-known artist Daniel Flynn's work at the gallery is a coup. But when a young woman's body is found in the canal, Flynn's nightmare images begin to spill out into the real world. Still affected by the murder of her friend's daughter four years earlier, Eliza is drawn deep into the violence that seems to surround the gallery. Is this the work of a psychopath or is there a link between present horrors and the tragedy of four years before?...
