The shocking conclusion of Elizabeth George's previous bestseller, WITH NO ONE AS WITNESS, saw the wife of New Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley gunned down in the street outside her home. Under arrest for the crime is a twelve-year-old boy, Joel Campbell. What possible motive could he have? What chain of events could have led such a child from the housing estates of North Kensington to the elegant streets of Belgravia with such deadly intent? The answer to these questions is a complex mixture of fate and circumstance. Abandoned (albeit involuntarily) by his parents, Joel and two siblings are dumped on the doorstep of his aunt's house. Kendra, childless and with two marriages behind her, is doing her best to turn her life around; responsibility for three troubled children is not what she had in mind. Drugs, neglect, violence and poverty are commonplace in North Kensington. Joel does his best to look out for his family, but that involves a Faustian pact. And the Devil will have his pay.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9780340827512
Idioma: Castellano
Número de páginas: 432
Tiempo de lectura:
10h 19m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 14/06/2007
Año de edición: 2007
Plaza de edición: London
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Elizabeth George
Elizabeth George nació en Warren, Ohio. Fue profesora de inglés en distintos colegios de California. Actualmente vive entre California y Londres. George es reconocida como uno de los grandes autores de la literatura policíaca en Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña, así como en numerosos pasíses de Europa en los que su obra ha sido publicada. Rocaeditorial ha publicado Sin testigos, que protagoniza Thomas Linely, y El refugio.