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Corn dolls

Title:

Corn dolls

Author:

Lennon, Patrick.

ISBN:

9780340898376

Personal Author:

Lennon, Patrick.

Publication Information:

London : Hodder & Stoughton, c2006.

Physical Description:

292 p. ; 24 cm.

Abstract:

What appears to be an accident in a farm machinery showroom in Cambridge is only the beginning of a nightmare for the police that harks back to the past and an obsession with vengeance. It's not the picture-postcard colleges of Cambridge that call to Detective Inspector Tom Fletcher, but the huddled backstreets & the flats surrounding the landscape of the Fens. It begins when he finds the body of a man half consumed by an agricultural shredding machine, & reaches back into the past - his own & the local police force - before slamming into the present with all the force of the most modern criminal power in the world.

Subject Term:

Fletcher, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Detective and mystery stories, English.

Murder -- Investigation -- England -- Cambridge -- Fiction.

Genre:

Mystery fiction.

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Summary

A simply brilliant debut novel which will rank alongside Mark Billingham's SLEEPYHEAD. Patrick Lennon writes in a wonderfully heightened, evocative style, making the back-streets of Cambridge 'the flip-side of the colleges and tourist-traps' and the eerie flatness of the Fens his own.

It begins for Tom Fletcher with what looks like a very bloody accident in a farm machinery showroom, and reaches back into the past - his own and that of the local police force - before slamming into the present with all the foce of the most up-to-date criminal power in the world. Crackling with secrets and surprises, packed with haunting landscapes and haunted characters, freighted with the hot thundery atmosphere of a Cambridge summer and the inevitable paying-out of past betrayals, CORN DOLLS marks the arrival of a major new crime talent.