- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd; First edition (7 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0434008850
- ISBN-13: 978-0434008858
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,913,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Hilary Bonner and "When the Dead Cry Out"
"Pick up Hilary Bonner at your peril---you won't be able to put her down. Bonner's taut, compelling tales have more twists and turns than an English country lane. She'll drive you to distraction."---Val McDermid, author of "The Torment of Others"
"Bonner works outside conventional mystery or police procedural mode, keeping readers guessing."---"Kirkus Reviews"
"Hilary Bonner's secret is that as a top journalist she's been there, seen it close up and asked the crucial questions. She plots with pace, passion, and that marvelous ability to keep you turning the pages long after you meant to put out the light."---Peter Lovesey, author of "The Circle"
"A fascinating tale of believable people, in the hands of an absolutely ace storyteller; I read it in one sitting, with enormous pleasure."---Lindsey Davis, author of "Scandal Takes a Holiday" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"Pick up Hilary Bonner at your peril---you won't be able to put her down. Bonner's taut, compelling tales have more twists and turns than an English country lane. She'll drive you to distraction."---Val McDermid, author of "The Torment of Others"
"Bonner works outside conventional mystery or police procedural mode, keeping readers guessing."---"Kirkus Reviews"
"Hilary Bonner's secret is that as a top journalist she's been there, seen it close up and asked the crucial questions. She plots with pace, passion, and that marvelous ability to keep you turning the pages long after you meant to put out the light."---Peter Lovesey, author of "The Circle"
"A fascinating tale of believable people, in the hands of an absolutely ace storyteller; I read it in one sitting, with enormous pleasure."---Lindsey Davis, author of "Scandal Takes a Holiday" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Rock star Scott Silver has been murdered, but the prime suspect lies dead alongside him. Silver's killer broke into his mansion home on the south Devon coast, and all appearances point to the star's seductive widow Angel killing the intruder in self defence. But local journalist John Kelly encounters a very tangled web indeed when he attempts to penetrate the mystery. Before long, he is captivated by the dangerous Angel, and is in thrall to a sexual obsession that may destroy him. The considerable reputation that Bonner has built for her tautly written, no-nonsense crime novels will be consolidated by this nicely tuned piece in which the erotic temperature is considerably higher than in Bonner's previous books.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Hilary Bonner continues to impress with her latest offering - an absorbing tale of deception,depravity and drugs that gallops through the pages.
Kelly, is an ageing hack desperately reaching for the 'big one' that will restore some of his self-respect after years in the wilderness as a reporter in Torquay. Coming back from a period of self-generated alcohol and drug abuse that nearly took his life as well as family,home, Fleet Street job and world renown, Kelly inadvertantly stumbles upon a double murder - and brings the enigmatic, entrancing Angel Silver back into his life. Her husband and a local drifter are savagely knifed to death in her bedroom - she admits to one, but how did her rock-and-roll star husband die?
Kelly succumbs to Angel's spell with a vengeance as they experiment to excess and to the exclusion of all others. Kelly's partner Moira, and son Nick, are all discarded in Kelly's downward spiral to oblivion. Kelly's old Fleet Street mentor, now his boss on the local rag, offers a lifeline when all seems lost and Kelly continues to seek the illusive truth about that fateful night.
The pace never slackens and Bonner pulls everything together with a couple of nice twists and with philospohical finality in the very last sentence.
The sloppy detective work, with modern political interference, is topical but a tad weak. Kelly, too, is weak, sad and pitiable, but not quite irredeemable.
Despite these very slight shortcomings, this is a cracking good book.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a long term fan of the stunning Minette Walters, i have long been looking for something similar.
I have found it in Hilary Bonner.
Here is a fantastic novelist, and fantastic novel. her experience in journalism make this book tang with authenticity, and the psychology is interesting and seems wholly accurate.
The book is brilliantly constructed, Bonner manages to draw you into the mystery, even when at first there appears to be very little mystery. Things all appear to be cut and dried, but them, about halfway through the book, we discover that things aren't all they seem, and the book really takes off!
The characters are excellently well drawn, John Kelly's decent into alcoholism and sad obsession is painful to read about, all the more so because you feelsympathetic towards him. Bonner makes you care about someone whom otherwise would be considered a pathetic wreck of a man.
The conclusion is excellent. Once more we feel that everything is all sorted out, until Bonner hits us with another twist.
This writer is equally on a par with Minette Walters (which is saying something!), if not better! The subtle smouldering of the tension is masterful! I loved this book, and it comes highly reccomended. I will definitely be reading others of hers.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When rock idol Scott Silver is found murdered, the prime suspect lies dead next to him. For Silver’s killer broke into his mansion home on the South Devon coast and it appears that the rock star’s mesmerising widow, Angel, killed the intruder in self-defence.
Gradually, however, an intense and complex tale of intrigue and deception is revealed. Local paper journalist John Kelly, a man with a past that still haunts him, begins to investigate.
Soon he finds himself totally falling under the spell of the beautiful Angel. Kelly becomes embroiled in a sexual obsession so overwhelming that it threatens to destroy him. Yet he continues to seek the truth about the night two men were brutally murdered.
A well crafted murder story with a surprising ending.
Gradually, however, an intense and complex tale of intrigue and deception is revealed. Local paper journalist John Kelly, a man with a past that still haunts him, begins to investigate.
Soon he finds himself totally falling under the spell of the beautiful Angel. Kelly becomes embroiled in a sexual obsession so overwhelming that it threatens to destroy him. Yet he continues to seek the truth about the night two men were brutally murdered.
A well crafted murder story with a surprising ending.
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