The Hunters
Publisher: Picador
Published: February 22, 2002
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780330488143
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Modern fiction
First sentence: When Maria Poniatowski let herself into Mrs. Ellington's apartment at 7:55 a.m. precisely (she was always five minutes early; she timed her walk that way), on the third Tuesday of August in 1993, and saw, at once, the trail of blood smeared along the wall from the front hall towards the bedroom, she knew that this was the end.