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The Sleeping and the Dead
 
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The Sleeping and the Dead (Paperback)
by Ann Cleeves (Author)
4.3 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New Ed edition (6 Sep 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330488023
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330488020
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 294,041 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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A diving instructor makes a gruesome discovery in Cranwell Lake - the body of a teenager who has clearly been in the water for many years. Detective Peter Porteous is called to the scene. After trailing through the missing persons files, he deduces that the corpse is Michael Grey, an enigmatic and secretive young man who was reported missing by his foster parents in 1972. As the police investigation gets under way in Cranwell, on the other side of the country prison officer Hannah Morton is about to get the shock of her life. For Michael was her boyfriend, and she was with him the night he disappeared. The news report that a body has been found brings back dreaded and long buried memories from her past...'Cleeves again excels in her sense of place in this cleverly plotted psychological thriller' - "The Times".

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ann Cleeves - This is as good as British crime writing gets, 18 Sep 2002
By John Baker (York, England) - See all my reviews
Hannah Morton is a single mum who works as a prison librarian; she lives with her teenage daughter Rosie, who will be going to university next year.
But thirty years ago, Hannah's boyfriend went missing and now he's turned up again, dead at the bottom of a lake with a chain around his ankles.
Ann Cleeves, in this latest offering, gives us everything required of a good crime novel. The plotting is tense and intricate and the characterization, especially of Hannah and Rosie, is rivetting. Add to that a conscious avoidence of cliche and a narrative approach which makes this author a stylist of distinction, and you will begin to understand why I found it very difficult to put this book down.
The Sleeping and the Dead is as good as British crime writing gets, and that includes all-comers, old and young on the contemporary scene.
Buy it now. You won't be disappointed.
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