A Maiden's Grave

A Maiden's Grave

by JefferyDeaver (Author)

Synopsis

A trio of desperate convicts has hijacked a bus carrying a group of deaf and mute schoolgirls who are now being held hostage in a disused slaughterhouse. FBI agent Arthur Potter is flown in to negotiate with the men, as are local police, state troopers, politicians and the media. Not everyone has the same agenda. And the killers will kill one innocent child an hour, on the hour, until their demands are met.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Edition: 3
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 05 Sep 1996

ISBN 10: 0340653752
ISBN 13: 9780340653753
Book Overview: The ultimate thriller writer's first large-scale, ticking clock standalone thriller. An escaped convict takes hostage a bus of deaf children. He will kill one an hour ...

Media Reviews
Deaver knits a seamless fabric of tightening tension right up to the explosive double whammy ending The Times A real chiller, seething with violence and heart-stopping tension Sunday Telegraph A gripping, emotional descent into the mind of evil Anthony Gallagher, Waterstone's Tension-packed pages take the thriller to a new dimension Doris Mousdale, Whitcoulls, New Zealand An authentic and gripping hostage drama Toby Wrigley, Book League, South Africa Riveting and sensitively handled New Woman
Author Bio
Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning author of two collections of short stories and 29 internationally bestselling novels, including the latest James Bond novel Carte Blanche. He is best known for his Lincoln Rhyme thrillers, which include the number one bestsellers The Vanished Man, The Twelfth Card and The Cold Moon, as well as The Bone Collector which was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The first Kathryn Dance novel, The Sleeping Doll, was published in 2007 to enormous acclaim. A three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the year, he has been nominated for an Anthony Award and six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. He won the WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award in 2001 and in 2004 won the Crime Writers' Association Steel Dagger for Best Thriller with Garden of Beasts, and their Short Story Dagger for The Weekender from Twisted. Jeffery Deaver lives in North Carolina and California. Visit his website, www.jefferydeaver.com, Facebook page, www.facebook.com/JefferyDeaver, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JefferyDeaver.