Title: Caedmon's song
First published: 1992
Description: On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, is strolling home through a silent moonlit park when she is viciously attacked.When she awakes in the hospital, she has no recollection of that brutal night. But then slowly, painfully, details reveal themselves -- dreams of two figures, one white and one black, hovering over her; snatches of a strange and haunting song; the unfamiliar texture of a rough and deadly hand ...In another part of the country, Martha Browne arrives in a Yorkshire seaside town, posing as an author doing research for a book. But her research is of a particularly macabre variety. Who is she hunting with such deadly determination? And why?The First Cut is a vivid and compelling psychological thriller, from the author of the critically acclaimed Inspector Banks series.
Subjects: Fiction, Authorship, Serial murders, Mystery, Serial murders, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, suspense, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: Whitby (England), Yorkshire (England)
LC classification: PR6068.O1964 C34 2004