Hanging Hill
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2.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
When the body of a beautiful, popular teenage girl is found on a canal towpath, detective Zoë Benedict is convinced the investigation needs to look beyond the usual domestic motives. When Zoë’s investigation leads her toward the world of webcam porn, a crippling secret from her past seems determined to emerge.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this superb stand-alone from British author Hayder (Pig Island), the brutal murder of 16-year-old Lorne Wood, found dead in a park with words written on her corpse, draws together the Benedict sisters, Zo and Sally, who have been estranged for years, despite both living in the city of Bath. Career-driven Zo , a detective inspector, takes issue with her team's reliance on a forensic psychologist. Pursuing her own line of investigation, Zo discovers that Lorne's modeling aspirations may have led the girl away from the catwalk and into something much seedier. Complacent Sally, a divorced mother, must take on extra housecleaning jobs to keep up with the spending of her teenage daughter, who was acquainted with Lorne. Reluctantly, Sally agrees to work extra hours for a rich businessman she soon learns makes his fortune in hardcore pornography. Secrets, both past and present, bind the sisters yet threaten to ruin multiple lives. Hayder uses her trademark violence to perfect sinister effect.
