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Kit Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds: crime scenes, interrogation scenes, hospitals for the criminally insane. Horribly wounded in an attack by a suspect, she must return to the site of her worst fears. She is asked by the police to advise them on a simple murder inquiry. A... read more

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  • Kit Quinn: Female protaganist. A psychologist who is attacked by a suspect during an interview must help in a separate crime involving her attacker who is the police's main suspect. Though her expertise leads her to believe he may not be the perpetrator...
  • Michael Doll: Kit's attacker and the police's suspect in a murder case. He becomes slightly infatuated with Kit.
  • Will Pavic: A dark, sardonic man who runs a hostel for runaways whom Kit comes to know in her investigations.
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  • “People say that you're strongest on your own territory. It's not true. Your own territory is where you're vulnerable.”

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"And I said, 'Yes, yes, I do believe in God,' but God can be the wind in the tree and the lightning in the sky."

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...little cry of shock.There was a tightness across my chest as I looked round. The space between the ending of the last sentence and beginning of the next is not spaced.

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  1. Nicci French (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Joined up writing/ Nederland: Ambo anthos
Country: Nederland
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 9041405003
Page Count: 351

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