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Caedmon's Song

Caedmon's Song

by PeterRobinson (Author)

  • Used

    Hardcover 2003

    $3.25

  • Used

    Paperback 2007

    $3.25
Synopsis

'A long, oily blackness punctuated by quick, vivid dreams . . . They were all just dreams. She couldn't possibly see these things, could she? Her eyes were closed. And if they really happened, then she would have screamed out from the pain, wouldn't she?'

On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, strolls home through a silent moonlit park. Suddenly her tranquil mood is shattered as she is viciously attacked.

When she awakes in hospital, she has no recollection of that brutal night. But then, slowly and painfully, details reveal themselves - dreams of two figures, one white and one black, hovering over her, wisps of a strange and haunting song; the unfamiliar texture of a rough and deadly hand . . .

In another part of England, Martha Browne arrives in Whitby, posing as an author doing research for a book. But her research is of a particularly macabre variety. Who is she hunting with such deadly determination? And why?

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 05 Sep 2003
ISBN 10: 1405041110
ISBN 13: 9781405041119

Media Reviews
Written back in 1990 but previously unpublished in the UK, this is one of Peter Robinson's earliest books. Taking a break from Inspector Banks he decided to write a book based on the victim's perspective rather than a police procedural. This creepy, suspenseful book was the result. Set on the Yorkshire coast, Martha Browne is supposedly researching a book whilst further inland a spate of student murders is causing a serial killer scare amongst the universities of the North. Flitting between Kirsten, the one survivor of the serial killer, and Martha, Robinson slowly but surely builds up the tension page by page. No stopping at the end of any chapter here, it is definitely a one-sitting read. Characteristically Yorkshire-based with detailed descriptions of the locations to draw the reader in, the writing is taut and tantalising displaying Robinson's skills at writing from the other side of the coin. A must for all Robinson fans. - Lucy Watson
Author Bio
PETER ROBINSON grew up in Yorkshire, and now lives in Canada. He is renowned for his best-selling Inspector Banks series, which has won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe. Peter Robinson's new Inspector Banks novel, PLAYING WITH FIRE, will be published in hardcover in 2004.