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by David Lawrence (Author) "Someone looking up might have seen her hanging in the tree, but people don't look up unless something draws their attention, and she was almost..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (28 Feb 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141014342
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141014340
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 300,893 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The naked body of a young woman is found hanging from a tree on a London roadside. Scrawled across her back, the words DIRTY GIRL. Detective Sergeant Stella Mooney and the AMIP 5 squad are faced with a murder as baffling as it is chilling. With no means to identify the victim and no apparent motive, the case is blocked, until... A man is found on a bench by the river, his throat cut back to the vertebrae. And, as before, the killer has left a trademark comment: FILTHY COWARD. Stella and her team can see there's a connection: but what? One victim is a young girl - maybe one of the hookers who work the Strip; the other a researcher for a prominent and controversial MP. More evidence is needed. And soon enough, it comes: another death; another message...

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David Lawrence is a successful poet and scriptwriter. He lives in Barnes, south-west London, and is the author of The Dead Sit Round in a Ring, Nothing Like the Night and Cold Kill, all featuring Stella Mooney.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful police procedural, 1 Jan 2008
By Gloria Feit (Long Beach, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down Into Darkness (Detective Stella Mooney Mysteries) (Hardcover)
This is the fourth book by David Lawrence, all in the Stella Mooney series. Stella is a 33-year-old London detective sergeant, and a body found in the rough section known as Harefield Estate hits a little too close too home for her - this is where she spent her youth, an appalling neighborhood, known for its flagrant drug-dealing and prostitutes. Stella never knew her father, and hasn't seen her mother in ten years. In those early years, the author tells us, Stella spent her time "watching the weather, following the flight of birds and wishing she could do that, wishing she could find a thermal, like the city gulls, and tilt, sliding down the wind until she reached somewhere that was somewhere else. Stella keeping quiet, keeping to herself, reading her own school reports, because her mother never would, looking for a way out, taking charge of her own life."

As the book opens the naked body of a young woman, no more than 20 years old, is found hanging from a tree, the words "dirty girl" scrawled in marker across her back. When another body is found soon thereafter, a man whose neck has been nearly severed found tied to a bench near the river, the words "filthy coward" similarly written across his arms, it would appear that the police have a serial killer on their hands. But a connection between the victims is hard to discern: the girl was apparently a prostitute, the man a researcher for a prominent Member of Parliament. As to the motive for the killings, Stella finds herself thinking: "'Who are you to be judge and executioner?' She gave a little shudder and suddenly was filled with a just and intense loathing for this man, this lone vigilante, this angel of wrath, or whatever he considered himself to be." But even more than the police procedural aspect of the book, as good as it is, the pull of the writing lies in the characters, among them DI Mike Sorley, Stella's boss and her close friend; Stella's lover, John Delaney, former was correspondent but currently a features writer currently working on something called The Rich List; who misses the action, and, of course, Stella herself. Most of all the book is about "secret lives. Who could ever know everything about anyone?," as Delaney says.

The poetry evident in this author's writing evinces his background as a prize-winning English poet. The book is gripping, its characters well-drawn and though similarities may be found in the writing of Ian Rankin and TV's Prime Suspect, among others, they are nonetheless original creations. This is a haunting novel, and one I won't forget for a while. Highly recommended.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Stick to screen writing, 28 Jun 2009
By Dbt Jaynes (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down Into Darkness (Detective Stella Mooney Mysteries) (Hardcover)
Well, this was my first excursion in to his books and I was disappointed and bemused. Alas, for me he's not a novel writer-far too many confusing tiny paragraphs and chapters for a book. I understand he's a screenwriter, well he should stick to that, this book was screen writing and not a novel. Perhaps it could be turned into good TV, but never a good book. I gave up half way through.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent well written crime novel, 13 Mar 2009
By Mark Oldroyd "crime buff" (London) - See all my reviews
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This was my first David Lawrence book although this is the fourth in the series. I shall be reading more of Mr.Lawrence's books. The writing is first class, intelligent and witty. The characters have some depth and are largely believable. London appears to have been transformed into a hugely dark and dangerous place, which makes for good dramatic content. My only criticism was the rather predictable and wet fizzle of an ending that did not match the pace and tension of the rest of the novel.
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