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Praise for The Bones in the Attic..."[A] superbly written suspense novel....Barnard quicklypulls his readers into the plot and holds them there rightthrough the final pages." -Publishers Weekly"Robert Barnard is one of the best living British crime writers."-Peter Robinson, author of the Inspector Banks mysteriesWhat happens when one's future is shanghaied by one's past?Soccer star Matt Harper, a rising media celebrity, has just sunksome roots in Yorkshire by buying a rambling old house inLeeds. There he intends to settle down with his lover Aileenand her three children. A survey of the attic with an architectproduces a shock-a tiny skeleton. It is identif?ied as that of atwo-year-old who died some 30 years ago, during the summer of1969 when Matt was sent from London to live in Leeds with hisaunt, a summer he spent playing soccer with his mates.But now, disturbing memories surface. Detective Inspector CharliePeace wryly acknowledges the low priority of the case for thelocal police, so Matt mounts his own investigation, strugglingto understand how a child could just disappear and never bereported missing. Whose bones are in the attic?Robert Barnard is the winner of the Malice Domestic Award for LifetimeAchievement and the Nero Wolfe Award, as well as the Agathaand Macavity awards. An eight-time Edgar nominee, he is a memberof Britain's distinguished Detection Club, and he received theCartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in mysterywriting in 2003. He lives with his wife, Louise, in Leeds, England. |