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Elvie McCulloch's sister Sophie has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run – and never came home. Several young woman in the area have disappeared in similar circumstances, and Elvie's family fears the worst.
As Elvie is driving to her new job late at night, the naked, emaciated body of a young woman crashes from high above onto an oncoming car. Elvie recognises her as Lorna Lennox, who has been missing for weeks. But why was she up there? Where had she been all this time? And why was she running for her life?
Teaming up with retired detective Billy Hopkirk, who has been retained by the mother of one of the missing girls to find her daughter, Elvie determines to find out the truth. But as the pair alternately collaborate with and infuriate investigating police detectives Anderson and Costello, they find themselves up against a terrifying enemy. Someone who has killed before. Someone who will kill again, for pure enjoyment. Someone they call The Night Hunter.
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November 13, 2014 -
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- ISBN: 9781780105741
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- ISBN: 9781780105741
- File size: 961 KB
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- English
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September 22, 2014
Elvie McCulloch, the caustic narrator of Ramsay’s harrowing fifth thriller featuring Det. Chief Insp. Colin Anderson and Det. Sgt. Winifred “Freddie” Costello (after 2012’s The Blood of Crows), must contend with the tensions within her dysfunctional family while trying to find her beloved sister, Sophie, who’s been missing for two months. PI Billy Hopkirk, a grungy ex-cop, assists in a search that ranges from modern Glasgow to Loch Lomond. Meanwhile, Costello and other police officers pursue the serial disappearances of young women, one of whom, naked and emaciated, dies by falling onto the top of a car. Elvie, who’s driving back to her nanny job in the middle of west Scotland’s nowhere, stops to assist the distressed motorist. Blood red herrings abound in this grim reprise of Christina Rossetti’s spooky “Goblin Market,” a poetic tribute to the special bond between sisters. Ramsay’s insights into tortured psyches makes for compelling, if often painful, reading.
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