- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Collins Crime; First Edition First Impression / Signed by Author edition (5 Jun 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007116306
- ISBN-13: 978-0007116300
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.4 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,773,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Silent Playgrounds:
‘Suspense scrupulously assembled; excitements dovetail with themes of genuine concern; characterization … generously and sympathetically drawn. Outskirts of Sheffield setting; welcome freshness of locale and theme. Reah’s second novel is seriously good’ Literary Review
‘With its strong atmosphere, well-contrived narrative and topical concerns, Silent Playgrounds is a superior thriller’ Patricia Craig, TLS
‘This is a complex psychological thriller. Reah is skilled at splicing domestic life with the menace of fears and at creating characters who are vulnerable, intelligent and humane’ Manchester Evening News
Praise for Only Darkness:
‘Menacing, highly atmospheric thriller … Scary stuff given an extra boost by dark and persuasive psychology in a chilly provincial setting where horrible things happen which freeze your blood’ Literary Review
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Disturbing, atmospheric suspense novel from the author of Silent Playgrounds and Only Darkness: ‘Dark, edgy and compelling’ TheTimes
The canal that runs through the centre of Sheffield used to carry the industrial freight for the steel industry. It is being renovated for leisure pursuits, but away from the city centre developments, the canal is overgrown, run down and deserted.
An arts trust has established a small but innovative gallery in one of the old warehouses by the canal, and Eliza Eliot, the curator, sees her career about to take off when she’s given the opportunity to show the latest exhibition by well-known artist Daniel Flynn. The exhibition is a series of reworkings of Brueghel’s painting, The Triumph of Death, and Eliza begins to realize that Flynn may have more complex motives for allowing his work to be shown at a small gallery in a provincial city.
But she is distracted, first by the repercussions of the murder, four years before, of a friend’s daughter, followed by the friend’s death in a car accident just before the book opens. Then a young woman who lives in one of the flats above the gallery is found dead in the canal, while a teenage girl also goes missing in an apparently unrelated case. Events take a sinister turn at the gallery as the nightmare images from Daniel Flynn’s exhibition start to spill out into the real world. Is this the work of a psychopath, or is there some link between present violence and the tragedy of four years ago?
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dark and compelling,
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This review is from: Bleak Water (Paperback)
Superior crime fiction. Bleak and gripping, with a distinctly northern feel - highly recommended!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reah does it again.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Bleak Water (Paperback)
This is only my second Reah book - after Silent Playgrounds. With Silent Playgrounds I though I had found an author whose style, inventive and characters I liked to form part of my reading matter. Bleak Water has only confirmed my original feelings.This book convines the traits of a mild city-horror-story with those of a psychological thriller. Without giving unnecessary details or descriptions it provides us as good an undestanding as we can possibly need of any of the main characters, who we chose to like or dislike accordingly. The setting is very clearly outlined so we can easily imagine the location for the events narrated in the novel. Bleak Water allows the reader enough insight to let us believe we have all the answers only to give us a couple of surprises along the way. It is not an easy read in as much as it requires the reader's attention, but once you provide that, you will not want to put it down. I would not want to pretend it is the best book I have ever read but it most definitely is the best in a while. I will be cheking other Reah works in the very near future.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dark, bleak, gripping,
By Clive A. H. Still "Sela Still" (Hampshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Bleak Water (Paperback)
Perhaps Danuta Reah has an artistic background? Certainly the way she brings the Breugel painting (Truimph of Death) to life, ties in parallels with the bleak urban landscape of Sheffield and incorporates a modern exhibition, suggests she knows her way round the art world.
Eliza lands a job in a modern art gallery - as she supposes, on merit - and becomes entangled in a modern murder mystery, whose solution lies in a murder mystery from years ago - she knew the child then : she is acquainted with the first victim this time round but she does not make any connections immediately. The two main police characters, Tina Barraclough and Ray Farnham, are complex and flawed and the tension generated between them when Barraclough slips from the professional standard expected by Farnham adds interest to the police procedural sections. Danuta Reah deserves more recognition : she is literate, her plotting is tight and her characters live on the page. Hopefully, we will see more of her in the future.
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