Falling
By: John Connor
Publisher: Orion; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780752868745; 9780752876375
Subjects: Women detectives; Karen Sharpe (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: A man is shot and his pregnant wife stabbed to death in their home by intruders. A burglary gone wrong? The only witness to the brutal attack is their six-year-old daughter, and DC Karen Sharpe is assigned to talk to her. But for Karen - battling demons of her own - the case proves devastatingly traumatic. Soon Karen's terrifying past rears its ugly head, and her relationships with those closest to her begin to buckle. As the police struggle with a summer of violence and unrest, Karen is plunged into the depths of the very world she has been trying to flee...
Table of contents: title: Terror is only a footstep away ...A year and a half ago DC Karen Sharpe was the victim of a terrifying crime. Desperately trying to shelter from its effects she has been working simple fraud and theft cases in West Yorkshire CID. But the brutal murder of a young pregnant woman threatens the precarious wall she has built around herself. Drafted onto the squad to deal with the victim's six-year-old child, Karen finds herself overwhelmed by the devastating nature of the attack. As nightmares from her past start to reoccur, her relationships with those closest to her; title: including her partner and teenage daughter; title: begin to crack under the strain. An illicit relationship with her boss promises excitement and escape; title: a new beginning without the trappings of past horrors and guilt. But life has a savage lesson in store for her. As West Yorkshire erupts in a summer of explosive race riots, events tip Karen into the depths of the very world she has been fleeing.