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  The Dark Room

  by Minette Walters

  Waking up in a private hospital, unable to remember anything significant about her past, photographer Jinz Kingsley becomes increasingly alarmed as evidence suggests that she has murdered her fiance+a7 and best friend. Reprint. LJ. K.
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  The Ice House

  by Minette Walters

  With this stunning debut--a marvelous marriage of classic convention and contemporary sophistication--Minette Walters sets a new standard of excellence for the mystery novel. The three women living in seclusion at an elegant Hampshire country house have long been fodder for village gossip...even whispers of a witches' coven. So when a faceless corpse of uncertain vintage is found in the Streech Grange ice house,... (more)
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  The Devil's Feather

  by Minette Walters

  In each of her previous ten critically acclaimed and hugely popular novels, Minette Walters has explored the dark terrain of the human psyche to give us thrillers of exceptional psychological complexity and suspense. Now, in The Devil’s Feather, she gives us her most unexpected and electrifying novel yet. In 2002, five women are discovered barbarously murdered in Sierra Leone. Reuters Africa correspondent... (more)
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  The Breaker

  by Minette Walters

  Why was Mary killed, and her daughter, a witness, allowed to live? Why weren't they together, and why had Mary willingly boarded a boat when she had a terror of drowning at sea? Police suspicion centres both on a young actor, and the murdered woman's husband.
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  The Sculptress

  by Minette Walters, Pa?ratiya?r

  In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves-- symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister to pieces and reassembled them in a blood-drenched jigsaw. Sullen, menacing, grotesquely fat, Olive Martin is burned-out journalist Rosalind Leigh's only hope of getting a new book published. But as she interviews Olive in her cell, Roz finds flaws in the Sculptress's confession. Is... (more)
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  The Chameleon's Shadow

  by Minette Walters

  When British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, his serious head injuries are the outward manifestation of a profound inner change: he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or it may be, as his psychiatrist suggests, “the prolonged destruction of a personality.” Though previously well adjusted and known as an extrovert, Acland now withdraws into himself. As he begins his recovery in... (more)
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  The Scold's Bridle

  by Minette Walters

  Few tears fall when rich, spiteful old Mathilda Gillespie's bloody corpse is found her bathtub, her wrists slit and the ancient scold's bridle clamped on her head. It seems Mathilda's favorite heirloom was also an instrument of torture form the Middle Ages, an iron cage used to gag yapping women. Among the Dorset villagers, only Sarah Blakeney, Mathilda's doctor for her final year, seems even mildly disturbed that... (more)
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  Acid Row

  by Minette Walters

  Acid Row is a crime-infested housing project that exists by its own laws. When news comes that a child has been kidnapped, the frustration and anger that has been seething on the streets of Acid Row is ignited. And no one will be safe.
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  Fox Evil

  by Minette Walters

  When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in night clothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy, landowning husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner's inquest gives a verdict of 'natural causes' but the gossip surrounding him refuses to go away. Why? Because he's guilty? Or because resentful women in the isolated Dorset... (more)
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  Disordered Minds

  by Minette Walters

  When a local councillor and an anthropologist re-investigate the controversial murder conviction of a mentally retarded 20-year-old, they're unprepared for the disturbing facts that come to light--and the personal demons with which they must come to terms.
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  The Tinder Box

  by Minette Walters

  A chilling tale of prejudice, ambition and cunning in which villagers react to a brutal double murderIn the small Hampshire village of Sowerbridge, Irish labourer Patrick ORiordan has been arrested for the brutal murder of elderly Lavinia Fanshaw and her live-in nurse, Dorothy Jenkins. As shock turns to fury, the village residents form a united front against Patricks parents and cousin, who report incidents of... (more)
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  The Shape of Snakes

  by Minette Walters

  It took a few hours on a rainy winter night for a black woman known as "Mad Annie" to die in a gutter. It will take twenty years for the woman who found her to shape her neighbors' racism, the indifference of the police, and her own rage into the truth. "Harrowing...These complex characters can be cunning, deceitful, even mad-which is exactly what makes them such absorbing company." ( New York Times Book Review... (more)
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  Shape of Snakes

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• 6 Titles By Minette Walters - Acid Row - Ice House - Echo - Breaker - Sculptress - The Shape of SnakesMinette Walters

  

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  6 Titles By Minette Walters - Acid Row - Ice House - Echo - Breaker - Sculptress - The Shape of Snakes

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  Chickenfeed (Quick Reads S.)

  by Minette Walters

  A body is found in a chicken run ...Based on the true story of the 'chicken farm murder' which took place in Blackness, Crowborough, East Sussex in December, 1924. Norman Thorne was found guilty of the murder of Elsie Cameron, but even at the time of his execution there were doubts about his guilt. Still swearing his innocence, Norman Thorne was hanged on 22 April 1925. Bestselling author Minette Walters brings a... (more)