- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New Ed edition (6 July 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006499848
- ISBN-13: 978-0006499848
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,665,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Robert Barnard is always original, never repeats himself and has a delectable wit’
Daily Telegraph
‘He plots as well as any writer alive’
Time Magazine
‘Barnard never disappoints. The psychological suspense is chilling’
The Times
Reviews for No Place of Safety
‘A fine example of the neatly packaged, traditional English whodunit’
Irish Times
‘Robert Barnard runs through a fine selection of contemporary issues… An observant and skilful writer’
Ham & High
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A witty and perceptive new novel from Robert Barnard, an acknowledged master of the genre.
When two teenagers go missing from the same school, Detective Constable Charlie Peace is puzzled, because none of their friends seem to know of any connection between them. The mystery soon solves itself: they are not homeless street kids, but they are working at a hostel for them. Charlie knows the life and crimes of such people as these two are trying to help, but he decides that, for the moment, they are safe.
But will Charlie have cause to regret his decision? After all, who is the man running the hostel? What is his past and what is his motivation? And just how nasty is the local opposition to the project likely to become? As the pair continue their good work, the situation at the hostel becomes even more fraught with the appearance of an Asian girl fleeing an arranged marriage. And it isn’t long before a murderous attack seems about to put an end to the whole project.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointingly, one of Barnard's lesser efforts,
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This review is from: No Place of Safety (Hardcover)
I've thoroughly enjoyed past Barnard books, but this one left me flat. He's too skilled a writer not to have some effective passages, but the story and characters were underdeveloped. His social commentary regarding homeless kids is pointed, but I missed his dark, satiric humor. The mystery of the stabber is solved, but ironically, the resolution doesn't really contribute to any of the characters' development, leaving me curiously uninvolved with them. Only Midge stood out with any vividness. All this and a lack of psychological suspense makes this a readable but blah experience.
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3.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointingly, one of Barnard's lesser efforts,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: No Place of Safety (Hardcover)
I've thoroughly enjoyed past Barnard books, but this one left me flat. He's too skilled a writer not to have some effective passages, but the story and characters were underdeveloped. His social commentary regarding homeless kids is pointed, but I missed his dark, satiric humor. The mystery of the stabber is solved, but ironically, the resolution doesn't really contribute to any of the characters' development, leaving me curiously uninvolved with them. Only Midge stood out with any vividness. All this and a lack of psychological suspense makes this a readable but blah experience.
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