An extract from Hurt: book extract + bonus DS Lucy Black Short Story
Sep 2013 · Hachette UK
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Read a preview extract from Hurt before it's published in November 2013
Danger Hides in Plain Sight ...
Brian McGilloway's Little Girl Lost was a runaway bestseller, now DS Lucy Black returns in Hurt, a tense crime thriller about the abuse of power and how the young and vulnerable can fall prey to those they should be able to trust.
A sixteen-year-old girl is found dead on a train line one freezing December night in Derry. Detective Sergent Lucy Black is called to identify the body of the murdered girl as Karen Hughes. As Lucy delves deeper in to the case, she discovers that Karen has been living in residential care the child of an alcoholic mother and a father behind bars. The only clue as to the girl's movements are her mobile phone and various social media sites - where her 'friends' are not all they seem ...
Hurt is coming this Autumn.
Also includes bonus DS Lucy Black short story - The Sacrifice.
Danger Hides in Plain Sight ...
Brian McGilloway's Little Girl Lost was a runaway bestseller, now DS Lucy Black returns in Hurt, a tense crime thriller about the abuse of power and how the young and vulnerable can fall prey to those they should be able to trust.
A sixteen-year-old girl is found dead on a train line one freezing December night in Derry. Detective Sergent Lucy Black is called to identify the body of the murdered girl as Karen Hughes. As Lucy delves deeper in to the case, she discovers that Karen has been living in residential care the child of an alcoholic mother and a father behind bars. The only clue as to the girl's movements are her mobile phone and various social media sites - where her 'friends' are not all they seem ...
Hurt is coming this Autumn.
Also includes bonus DS Lucy Black short story - The Sacrifice.
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About the author
Brian McGilloway is the author of eleven crime novels including the Ben Devlin mysteries and the Lucy Black series, the first of which, Little Girl Lost, became a New York Times and UK No.1 bestseller. In addition to being shortlisted for a CWA Dagger and the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, he is a past recipient of the Ulster University McCrea Literary Award and won the BBC Tony Doyle Award for his screenplay, Little Emperors. He currently teaches in Strabane, where he lives with his wife and four children.
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