Book
A silent death / Peter May.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781784294991
- ISBN: 1784294993
- ISBN: 9781784294984
- ISBN: 1784294985
- Physical Description: 421 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: London : Riverrun, an imprint of Quercus Editions, 2020.
- Copyright: ℗♭2020
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "Spain, 2020. When ex-pat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge by destroying the policewoman Cristina's aunt Ana has been deaf-blind for the entirety of her adult life: the victim of a rare condition named Usher Syndrome. Ana is the center of Cristina's world, and of Cleland's cruel plan. John Mackenzie, an ingenious yet irascible Glaswegian investigator, is seconded to aid the Spanish authorities in their manhunt. He alone can silence Cleland before the fugitive has the last, bloody, word."--Publisher description. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Fugitives from justice > Fiction. Policewomen > Fiction. Revenge > Fiction. Aunts > Fiction. Usher's syndrome > Patients > Fiction. Spain > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
Author Notes
A Silent Death
Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BCC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.He has won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse , the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island . Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.
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