Lightseekers - Waterstones Thriller of the Month
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| Verlag | Bloomsbury Trade |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 432 |
| Format | 12,9 x 2,7 x 19,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 295 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781526617576 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52661757UA |
They already know who killed the boys. What they need to know is why.The launch of a major new international crime series featuring investigative psychologist Philip Taiwo.
Klappentext:
Waterstones Thriller of the Month'Lightseekers is ripe with all the twists and turns you could hope for... A fast-paced thriller that offers insight into the ever present tensions in a poverty stricken community. An action-packed and spirited debut' Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, the Serial KillerSelected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times.Winner of the 2019 UEA Crime Writing Prize, Lightseekers is the start of a major new crime series introducing investigative psychologist Dr Philip Taiwo.When three young students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian university town, their killings - and their killers - are caught on social media. The world knows who murdered them; what no one knows is why.As the legal trial begins, investigative psychologist Philip Taiwo is contacted by the father of one of the boys, desperate for some answers to his son's murder. But Philip is an expert in cro wd behaviour and violence, not a detective, and after travelling to the sleepy town that bore witness to the horror, he soon feels dramatically out of his depth.Will he finally be able to uncover the truth of what happened to the Okriki Three?
Rezension:
A superb novel - so inventive and so well done. It's just brilliant Harriet Tyce