Winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010.
April 2009 Book of the Month.
R J Ellory was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library 2009 - the prize awarded for an author's body of work.
This one is big, 500 pages, but all go too fast. It is a police procedural one, the story of murdered women who appear not to exist. Taking place in Washington in the mid-term elections, it’s the last thing the police want but we get election politics mixed into a complicated investigation, which is fascinating. Moving, disturbing and thought-provoking, it grips from the start.
Comparison: Dennis Lehane, Stieg Larsson, Tom Rob Smith.
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Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a fourth murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, there were few people that could ignore it. Detective Robert Miller is assigned to the case.
He and his partner begin the task of correlating and cross-referencing the details of each crime scene. Rapidly things begin to complicate. The victims do not officially exist.
Their personal details do not register on any known systems. The harder Miller works, the less it makes sense. And as Miller unearths ever more disturbing facts, he starts to face truths so far-removed from his own reality that he begins to fear for his life.
This is a novel about trust, loyalty, and beliefs that are so ingrained which, when challenged, they leave people with nothing. Vast in scope, A SIMPLE ACT OF VIOLENCE is an expose of the brutality of covert operations, the power of greed and the insidious nature of corruption. It is also a story of love and trust that shomehow managed to survive the very worst that the world could throw at it.
A Simple Act of Violence features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery, Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
A Simple Act of Violence is available in Paperback, Hardback
A Simple Act of Violence was written by R. J. Ellory and published by Orion Publishing Co
A Simple Act of Violence has 562 pages
£13.49
