Grasshopper

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Grasshopper" is an enthralling chilling novel by the bestselling queen of crime Barbara Vine. They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon. When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past. In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon
- a gargantuan electrified grasshopper
- Clodagh goes off to university moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family & finds freedom trekking across Londons rooftops with a gang of neighborhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber however both Clodagh & the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon & of the terrible thing that happened there
- & by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away. " Grasshopper" is a modern crime masterpiece that will have you gripped from the first page to the last. If you enjoy the novels of P.D. James Ian Rankin & Scott Turow you will love this book. " The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together". (Ian Rankin). "A superb & original writer". (Amanda Craig " Express"). Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym including "A Fatal Inversion" & " King Solomons Carpet" which both won the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: "A Dark Adapted Eye"; " The House of Stairs"; " Gallowglass"; " Astas Book"; " No Night Is Too Long"; " In the Time of His Prosperity"; " The Brimstone Wedding"; " The Chimney Sweepers Boy"; " Grasshopper"; " The Blood Doctor"; " The Minotaur"; " The Birthday Present" & " The Childs Child"."