Iced

Iced

by JennySiler (Author)

Synopsis

For Megan, home is a place to come back to when there's nowhere left to go. Her last home was a cosy cell at a woman's prison in New Mexico - she'd stabbed a man, though most would say he'd deserved it. She gets a job repossessing cars whose owners have defaulted on their payments. When local pilot Clayton Bennett is stabbed to death, a Native American couple he'd got drunk with take the rap. His Cherokee Jeep was due for repo and Megan grabs it, but the moment she gets her hands on the vehicle the spiral of violence that began with Bennett's murder escalates. A gang of criminally minded Russian immigrants and a woman with a red dragon tattoo, apparently working alone, seem to have a pressing interest in the Jeep. Or in something that's hidden inside it - and nothing and no one will stop them finding it. Jenny Siler has done it again with an intensely vivid piece of writing. Megan's voice draws the reader immediately to a dark, soulful world of appealing loners, sad misfits, and extremely nasty villains. Freezing, bleak Montana in the dead of winter is bought frigidly to life in her wonderful, evocative prose, and Megan's questing character, dark past and rich inner life make her a mesmerising companion. Unputdownable.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 30 Dec 2000

ISBN 10: 0752832166
ISBN 13: 9780752832166
Book Overview: Second novel by a wonderful new talent among hardboiled American thriller writers EASY MONEY sold over 6000 copies in its trade edition EASY MONEY received widespread and amazing reviews: 'Once in a blue moon, a new writer speaks up in a voice that gets your attention like a rifle shot. Jenny Siler has that kind of voice: clean, direct and a little dangerous' New York Times Book Review; 'A dark star is born' Val McDermid; 'Siler takes the reader for a seriously fast and scary ride. If you're like me, you'll end up checking your reading chair for a seatbelt' Ian Rankin; 'Cool but heart-wrenching thriller ... Hugely exciting ... Don't miss' Literary Review; 'An exciting, wham-bam, road movie of a thriller, and a stunning crime debut' Daily Telegraph

Author Bio
Jenny Siler is twenty-nine years old. She grew up in Missoula, Montana. For much of her life, she has travelled and worked her way around the world, starting as a prep-cook in the scullery of a men's soup kitchen, through working in a fish cannery in Alaska pulling salmon roe, to being a nude sketch model at an art museum in Frankfurt. Her work, she says, has defined her and her writing. ICED is her second novel.