The Child Who
Format: kindle
ASIN: B006YIA9KI
Publish date: March 1st 2012
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
A taut, excellent thriller, heavily based on the notorious Bulger/Mary Bell murder cases in the UK, Lelic handles a difficult topic bravely. There is no attempt to romanticise his murderer, 12 year old Daniel Blake and his main character, Leo Curtice, a rural attorney who accidentally picks up the t...
What starts out as an incredibly unsettling - to the point of making you feel that odd sense of paranoia and unease even when you aren't reading it - novel sputters and stalls out into a series of unbelievable characters and clearly telegraphed 'twists' that completely invalidate any goodwill you ha...
I have 3 words to describe this book...Gritty, Intense and Powerful! In roughly, 260 pages of readable material, this book, which another reader described as tabloid style, packed a really powerful punch in its' storyline. I absolutely loved this book and was really kept guessing to the bitter end! ...
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