Troubled Blood

Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Award 2021

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<p>Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.<br><br>Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.<br><br>As Strike and Robin investigate Margot's disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly . . .<br><br><b>A breathtaking, labyrinthine epic, <i>Troubled Blood</i> is the fifth Strike and Robin novel and the most gripping and satisfying yet.</b><b><br><br>Praise for the <i>Strike </i>series:</b><br><br>'A <b>blistering </b>piece of crime writing'<br><i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>'The work of <b>a master storyteller</b>' <br><i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><br>'<b>Unputdownable</b>'<br><i>Daily Express</i><br><br>'Highly <b>inventive </b>storytelling'<br><i>Guardian</i><br><br>'Superb . . . an <b>ingenious</b> whodunnit'<br><i>Sunday Mirror</i><br><br>'Come for the <b>twists and turns</b> and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship' <br><i>Independent</i><br><br>'Outrageously <b>entertaining</b>'<br><i>Financial Times</i></p> / Nominiert: Audible Sounds of Crime Award at Crimefest 2021. <br>Ausgezeichnet: Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Awards 2021. <br>Nominiert: CWA Gold Dagger 2021. <br>Nominiert: CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2021

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780751579949

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

56 x 152 x 234 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Verlag / Hersteller

Sphere