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Cold Steel
Cold Steel
Oct 30, 2024 1:37 AM

Author:Paul Carson

Cold Steel

The body of a teenage girl is found in a Dublin park. She has been brutually stabbed to death. For Dublin's police and politicians, the nightmare is just beginning. The dead girl is the daughter of a high-profile American surgeon who heads the Mercy Hospital's new Heart Foundation.

When DS Jim Clarke and his team pick up the trail of a suspect, the pressure is on to close in quickly. America is baying for justice. But do they have the right man?

At the Mercy Hospital Frank Clancy, consultant haematologist, is concerned about two unusual deaths. But when he decides to take a closer look he places his own life in danger...

Reviews

Utterly loveable...Ghote is one of the great creations of detective fiction

—— Alexander McCall Smith

Frederique Vargas['s]...imaginative characters put most of America's top-rated crime writers to shame

—— Observer

Wonderfully intricate and gothic

—— Jane Jakeman , Independent

An Uncertain Place is full of wit and invention, with a plot that satisfies both intellect and emotion

—— Annabella Bankhouse , Times Literary Supplement

As ever, Vargas's characters inhabit a world where reason and myth collide, and the result is a thrilling read

—— Joan Smith , Sunday Times

This is crime fiction writing at its most intriguing

—— Marie Claire

Only one's dreams after a champagne-fuelled night at the Follies Bergere have quite the same nightmarish-but-entertaining quality as Vargas's delightful crime novels

—— Jake Kerridge , Daily Telegraph

Gripping

—— Guardian

[Vargas is] one of the most exciting, addictive and inventive purveyor of classy crime fiction currently pounding the publishing beat... It it a highly entertaining policier but more importantly, as with Conan Doyle, the wacky world Vargas shapes is oddly reassuring: a great remedy to a grey day

—— Christian House , Indepedent on Sunday

A thrilling read

—— Sunday Times
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