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Hen's Teeth
Hen's Teeth
Oct 11, 2024 1:29 AM

Author:Manda Scott

Hen's Teeth

Midnight in Glasgow is not the best time to be faced with a dead body. Particularly if the body in question is your ex-lover and the woman grieving at her bedside used to be your friend. Add a corpse packed with Temazepam, a genetic engineer with an unstable past and a killer on the loose with a knife and you have all the reason you need to walk away and never come back. Glasgow therapist Dr Kellen Stewart has put the past behind her: medical career, relationship, life on the farm in the country. Thenthe phone rings and Bridget is dead – the only lover who ever counted.The local doctor says it's a heart attack, the police think it's suicide. Kellen knows that it's neither but is she willing to rake up the past to prove it? Dragged into a world of rogue doctors, bent genetic engineers and killers who gut their victims as a warning, Kellen must face her own past as much as the very real terrors of the present to stop the killing – or she'll be next.

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One of the century's great yarn-spinners...marvellously evocative...another manifestation of the Innes genius

—— Sydney Herald

Hammond Innes… surely the doyen of the well-made modern thriller

—— Daily Telegraph

Mr Innes' work stands in a class by itself

—— New Statesman

Hammond Innes deals magnificently with disaster

—— Observer

Taut, compelling... a storming read

—— The Bookseller Books of the Year 2013

One sitting, much tea and several hours later I was still totally drawn in by the high-octane drama . . . I devoured it

—— Stylist

Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination.

—— NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Patterson is in a class by himself.

—— VANITY FAIR

A wonderful story, a superb debut... Whatever you do stick with it, this is a remarkable book and deserves to be read.

—— Miles Orchard , milorambles.co.uk

a superb & accomplished debut, beautifully written & with a heart of sadness ... Loved it! ... Great debut

—— Stav Sherez

Part Lisbeth Salander, part Jason Bourne, Munroe comes out swinging hard again. . . . A gritty, suspenseful novel.

—— Library Journal
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