April 2011 Book of the Month.
Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2011.
What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do things you never thought possible, to go places you never knew existed. These are questions Sally has never really thought about before.
The Victim: A teenage girl has been brutally murdered on her way home from school. The cryptic message 'all like her' is crudely written on her body. The Silence: The dead girl's friends are deeply shocked and upset, but they all refuse to reveal anything about her last movements. Who are they protecting? And what more do they know? The Fear: Headstrong Detective Inspector Zoe Benedict knows exactly how she wants to work this case. But Zoe's own dark past, if exposed, may jeopardize the search for justice . . . and destroy her too. Tense, thrilling and brilliantly original, Hanging Hill reveals the evil side of human nature and the terrible things normal people can do...
ISBN: | 9780553824346 |
Publication date: | 29th March 2012 |
Author: | Mo Hayder |
Publisher: | Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group) an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 560 pages |
Primary Genre | Crime and Mystery |
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Closing date: 31/07/2022
After leaving school at fifteen, Mo Hayder worked as a barmaid, security guard, film-maker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia. She has an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University, where she now teaches. She is the author of Birdman, The Treatment, which won the 2001 WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award, and Tokyo, all published by Bantam Books. In 2011 Mo Hayder was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded to an author for a body of work. Maxim Jakubowski's view on DI JACK CAFFERY... A ...
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