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ISBN: 1874061831
Price: £4.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Extent: 173pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: April 2000

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE BOOK

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Charles Westover, a disbarred lawyer, alleges that his runaway teenage daughter has been murdered and he files an insurance claim. And then he disappears, leaving claims investigator, Dave Brandstetter to sort through the pieces of the puzzle. Young women have been murdered by the crazed guru of a bizarre sex cult - is this what happened to Serenity Westover? Brandstetter's investigation, set against vivid Californian backgrounds of expensive seaside suburbs and snowy mountain camps, desert towns and wilderness canyons, takes him on a quest of mounting tension and ultimate horror. Never has he needed his renowned shrewdness and compassion more. And never has he faced so close a brush with a grisly death.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'The Brandstetter stories develop strongly with a striking quality of measured calm'
- Sunday Times

'After 40 years Hammett has a worthy successor'
- The Times

'Spare and stylish'
- The Financial Times

'The most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today'
- Los Angeles Times

'Unusual in two respects. One is that the insurance investigator, though ruggedly masculine, is thoroughly and contentedly homosexual. the other is that Hansen is an excellent craftsmen, a compelling writer.'
- New Yorker