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Graeme Hague
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Missing Pieces |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Mass Market Paperback |
| Pages: |
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369 |
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2005-01 |
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0843954825 |
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Leisure Books |
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0.44 pounds |
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4.17 x 0.0 x 6.65 inches |
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2 Ray Palen (USA), Gina (USA: NJ) |
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2 wildhart (USA: LA), PattiAM (USA: RI) |
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Product Description
A terrified secretary finds a severed finger in an elevator. A week later, in another building, a hand is found–from a different victim. What will be next? An arm or a leg? Someone’s head? As Detective John Maiden confronts the mounting horror of the crimes he knows more lives are at stake. And not just those of the killer’s next targets. The kidnapping of a young girl has raised the stakes even higher as her captor wants to get his deeds noticed–and the front pages of the newspapers are giving him nasty ideas. This is a chilling story of murder, revenge and vicious abduction. Note: Some content may not be deemed suitable for readers under the age of 16.
Author’s Introduction: I was having lunch with my publishers one day (not being a smart-ass here, I normally lived thousands of miles away, so it was a sort of once-a-year thing I did) –the publishers of my four horror novels–and we discussed the concept of me trying to write a crime novel. It was one of those only half-serious suggestions that come from too much red wine and beer, but I went away giving it some thought and as I rode the lift up to my hotel room I wondered, what would someone do if they discovered an amputated finger on the elevator floor? Missing Pieces was born–it’s as simple as that. The book was released in Australia, the United States and more recently Germany where’s it’s been a best seller. I must try and remember what kind of wine and beer I was drinking at lunch that day...
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wildhart (USA: LA) (2009/09/15):
Detective Sergeant John Maiden is bored with his job. Seven years of the same drudgery, why can't something interesting happen? Unfortunately for John Maiden things do start to get interesting and not in a good way. On the trail of a serial killer who delights in leaving a growing number of body parts to be found by everyday white collar workers, John has to find the murderer before they kill again! Grudgingly teamed up with a new partner fresh from the academy and enlisting the help of a beautiful forensic specialist, will John be able to track the psycho down before the body count loses him his job? Missing Pieces is Australian author Graeme Hague's first foray into the thriller genre and he does a superb job of keeping you guessing right to the very end. Set in Sydney's Rocks district you will find murder, mystery and passion with Missing Pieces. I greatly enjoyed this book, as I have with all of Graeme Hague's work, and will highly recommend this to anyone that has ever wondered what they would do if stuck in an elevator, with a severed finger found on the floor...
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