In guilty night
By: Alison G. Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780140254433
Subjects: Michael McKenna (Fictitious character); Runaway children; Fiction; Sexually abused children; Children; Institutional care; Police; Detective and mystery stories; Enfants fugueurs; Romans, nouvelles; Enfants victimes d'abus sexuels
Description: On a freezing November night, 14-year-old Arwel Thomas, a victim of sexual abuse and on the run from a children's home, is found dead in a railway tunnel outside Bangor. DCI Michael McKenna and his colleagues are drawn in to the relationships and power struggles surrounding Arwel and his peers in the claustrophobic world of childcare institutions where nothing and no one can be taken at face value, where ethical structures collapse in the face of expediency and greed, and where Elias ab Elis and his wife, blessed with worldly wealth, are cursed and impoverished by Elis' dark past and their own.
Notes: Originally published: London : Robert Hale, 1996.