"Tense and twisty, this suspenseful thriller traverses time and the globe as two detectives unravel a web of child abuse."
"Why was the old man so afraid?”. The moment detective John Custer meets an aging Peeping Tom incites him to “conduct a secret campaign to find out what kind of fear makes an old soldier wet himself”, kicking off Lisa St Aubin de Terán’s tense psychological crime thriller in punch-packing style.
Though most of his colleagues think there’s nothing more to the Peeping Tom, Custer believes otherwise, not least when his keen observational eye spots that the perpetrator has countless images of “a series of girls, all blonde, all aged between five and ten-years-old, and all different but all disturbingly reminiscent of little Michelle Mason across the way”, and realises that some of the photos are of a child star from the 1940s.
So, with support from Sergeant Jolly Campbell, who has something of a crush on him, Custer’s search for the truth and justice leads him from the 1940s to Istanbul, Burma, Cairo, and 1980s Britain.
Sparked by real case histories of abused children, and endlessly surprising, The Hobby will have fans of character-driven crime fiction on the edge of their seats.
When police pay a visit to an elderly peeping tom, they unexpectedly stumble upon a loose thread that leads detective John Custer into a murky world of sex crimes and serial killings, of hidden graves and socially impeccable paedophiles. Ignoring the scepticism of his colleagues and superiors, Custer doggedly follows his intuition that there really is something very wrong that needs to be discovered, however cold the trail seems to have become.
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When police pay a visit to an elderly peeping tom, they unexpectedly stumble upon a loose thread that leads detective John Custer into a murky world of sex crimes and serial killings, of hidden graves and socially impeccable paedophiles. Ignoring the scepticism of his colleagues and superiors, Custer doggedly follows his intuition that there really is something very wrong that needs to be discovered, however cold the trail seems to have become.
The Hobby features in the following genres: Literary Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Paperback, Hardback. £20.66, down from the £22.95 cover price. In Stock.
The Hobby was written by Lisa St Aubin de Terán and published by Amaurea Press
The Hobby has 384 pages
£20.66, reduced from £22.95. In Stock.
