Death of a Murderer
Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award 2008
(Sprache: Englisch)
An ordinary policeman spends a long and thoughtful night guarding the body of one of Britain's most notorious criminals
An ordinary policeman spends a long and thoughtful night guarding the body of one of Britain's most notorious criminals
An ordinary policeman spends a long and thoughtful night guarding the body of one of Britain's most notorious criminals
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An ordinary policeman spends a long and thoughtful night guarding the body of one of Britain's most notorious criminals
An ordinary policeman spends a long and thoughtful night guarding the body of one of Britain's most notorious criminals
An ordinary policeman spends a long and thoughtful night guarding the body of one of Britain's most notorious criminals
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Towards the end of November 2002, Billy Tyler, a police constable in his mid-forties, is summoned to the mortuary of a hospital in Suffolk. For the next twelve hours, from seven in the evening till seven in the evening, he is responsible for guarding the body of the notorious child-killer, Myra Hindley. In the face of public hostility and media frenzy, Billy's job, as his superior puts it, is to 'make sure nothing happens'. As a seasoned police officer, Billy's approach is utterly professional, but as the night wears on, in the eerie silence of the hospital, Hindley's presence begins to assert itself, and Billy's own problems and anxieties - a stalled career, a fractious marriage, a disabled daughter - gradually acquire a new and unexpected significance. In this daring novel, Rupert Thomson takes on one of the most controversial subjects of our time and addresses the difficult questions that arise from it. Who do we love, and why? How do we protect our children? What separates usfrom the people we call monsters? A vivid evocation of an extraordinary moment in crime history, Death of a Murderer is one man's dark night of the soul, a gripping meditation on the fears and temptations that haunt the lives of all of us.
Autoren-Porträt von Rupert Thomson
Thomson, RupertRUPERT THOMSON is the author of eight highly acclaimed novels, of which Air and Fire and The Insult were shortlisted for the Writer's Guild Fiction Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize respectively. His most recent novel, Death of a Murderer, was shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Novel Award. His memoir This Party's Got to Stop was published in 2009.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rupert Thomson
- 2007, 256 Seiten, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 0747590680
- ISBN-13: 9780747590682
Sprache:
Englisch
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