Книга: Michael Robotham «The Night Ferry»
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Производитель: "Little, Brown and Company" Alisha Barba s dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school friend, Cate Beaumont, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. On the night they arrange to meet, Cate is mown down by a car that kills her husband instantly. As paramedics fight to save her life they discover there is no baby. Her pregnancy is an elaborate lie, a cruel deception. Why? What happened? As Alisha sets out to answer these questions she is drawn deeper and deeper into a dangerous quest that will take her from the East End of London to Amsterdam s red light district and into a murky underworld of sex trafficking, slavery and exploitation. A gripping thriller, with twists at every turn, The Night Ferry is Michael Robotham s finest novel yet. Издательство: "Little, Brown and Company" (2008)
ISBN: 978-0-7515-3730-7 |
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Michael Robotham
Michael Robotham (born November 1960) is an Australian crime fiction writer.
Formerly a journalist with the Fairfax Press in Sydney he travelled to London and got a job on Fleet Street in 1986. He later became the best-selling pseudonymous author of ten "autobiographies" of people in the arts, Military and sport. He returned to Australia with his family in 1996 and took to writing full-time.
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Awards and nominations
- Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: winner for Lost
- Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2007: shortlisted for The Night Ferry
- Crime Writers' Association (UK), The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, 2007: shortlisted for The Night Ferry
- Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2008: winner for Shatter
- Crime Writers' Association (UK), The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, Best Thriller, 2008: shortlisted for Shatter
Bibliography
Novels
- The Suspect (2004) ISBN 978-0751544176
- Lost (2005) (aka The Drowning Man) ISBN 978-0751544220
- The Night Ferry (2007)
- Shatter (2008) ISBN 978-0751537314
- Bombproof (2008) ISBN 978-0751542042
- Bleed For Me (2010) ISBN 978-0751541090
- The Wreckage (2011) ISBN 978-1847442208
Interviews
- "Shots ezine" [1] 2003
- "The Advertiser" [2] June 26, 2007
- "The Age" [3] August 19, 2007
- "reviewingtheevidence" [4] Undated, possibly end 2007
- "The Book Show" - discussion with Peter Temple [5] July 25, 2008
References
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Australian crime writers
- Australian novelists
- Australian writer stubs
Источник: Michael Robotham
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