Hanging Hill

428 pages

English language

Published Dec. 22, 2011 by Bantam Press.

ISBN:
978-0-593-06383-5
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OCLC Number:
726791580

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What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do things you never thought possible? These are questions Sally has never really thought about before. Married to a successful business man, shes always been a bit of a dreamer. Until now. When Sally's daughter gets into difficulties, Sally finds she needs cash - lots of it - fast. With no one to help her, she is forced into a criminal world of extreme pornography and illegal drugs; a world in which teenage girls can go missing ...

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Zoe and Sally are estranged sisters, both living in Bath but never meeting. They only hear about each other's lives from the grapevine. When one of Sally's daughter's friends is found dead, Zoe is on the team investigating and slowly the two women's lives become drawn together once more.

Another pacy thriller from Mo Hayder. Unlike her other standalone novels, this feels a lot more like the Jack Caffrey series in style and, of course, in the familiar West Country location. Bath is an unusual choice for a thriller, no one expects the very middle class city to have a seedy underbelly and it's a good choice for highlighting Sally's financial troubles in a world where everyone else seems to have money.

I do wonder if she is planning to write a follow up. The ending will definitely leave readers screaming for more and I can see Zoe and Sally …

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Subjects

  • Sisters
  • Divorced mothers
  • Fiction