Judas Child

Carol O'Connell

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Published by Cornerstone Publishing

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Format: ebook

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EAN: 9781448107469
Published: 28 Oct 2001

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Synopsis

Sadie Green's purple bicycle was found abandoned at the bus stop. Then her friend, Gwen, disappeared, which led the police to propose a runaway theory to the press. But State Police Investigator Rouge Kendall wasn't convinced. On a barstool in Dame's tavern, where Kendall spent a little too much time, he remembered his own mother, begging for the life of his twin sister, Susan. That was fifteen years ago. And a man had been imprisioned for that murder - a priest, barely in his twenties. Father Paul Marie continued to proclaim hi innocence. And current events might prove that he was telling the truth, that someone else might be responsible for all three crimes. . . Taut, menacing, intensely felt, Carol O'Connell's fifth novel reveals a total mastery of her craft.

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What the critics say

Few readers will be able to resist the charms of her lyrical prose or her daringly original plot, and anyone unmoved by the soul-shattering climax should give up reading fiction altogether.
- Booklist

A heart-stopping, twist-in-the-tail novel of intelligence and suspense. True thrills don't come cheap, but they sometimes come as well-written and mesmerising as this.
- Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday

Scarily good
- Richard North Patterson

A menacing and unsettling thriller set against a mysterious winter landscape that reflects the cold heart of a serial killer . . . O'Connell is a consummate story teller . . . a unique talent who deserves to be a household name. Judas Child is a scary monster of a book that should make her just that.
- Val McDermid, Express

Compulsive reading, a genuine page-turner, in which the 'whodunnit' is only part of the puzzle
- The Times

A heart-stopping novel of intelligence and suspense
- Mail on Sunday

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