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Absolution
Ramsay, Caro2020
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In 1984, PC Alan McAlpine was given a simple job. Guarding a woman - nameless and almost faceless after an acid attack - at a Glasgow hospital. He has no idea that this simple job will haunt his career and change his life forever. Two decades later, Alan steps into Partickhill police station and back in time. 'Glasgow comes alive in Ramsay's dark, vivid and daring thriller' VAL McDERMID`A cracker of a debut . . . Many shivers in store for readers followed by a shattering climax' TimesThe Crucifixion Killer is stalking Glasgow, leaving victims' mutilated bodies in a Christ-like pose. DCI Alan McAlpine is drafted in to lead the hunt, supported by local officers DI Anderson and DS Costello.But the past holds horrific memories for McAlpine. He last worked this beat some twenty years earlier, when he was assigned to guard a woman - faceless after a sadistic acid attack - at a Glasgow hospital. An obsession was born at that hospital room that has never quite left McAlpine and now it seems to be resurfacing. As the chase to halt the gruesome murders intensifies, so Anderson and Costello find chilling cause for concern uncomfortably close to home . . .
Main title:
Absolution / Caro Ramsay.
Author:
Ramsay, Caro, author
Work:
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Black Thorn, 2020.
Collation:
388 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: London: Michael Joseph, 2007.
ISBN:
9781786898739 (pbk)9781786898746 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6118.A46
Language:
English
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BRN:
1040124