- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Orion (Jun 16 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0752884417
- ISBN-13: 978-0752884417
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #675,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"[A] powerful thriller . . . Mosby intercuts between characters’ perspectives brilliantly, setting up a reveal toward the end that’s both logical and unexpected." —Publishers Weekly on Cry for Help
"One of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction." —Val McDermid, author, A Place of Execution
"He writes like the very best American thriller writers." —Guardian
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It’s a policemen's job to look death in the eye—however sinister a form it takes
Sarah Pepper is dead—killed by her boyfriend in a drunken rage. He has confessed, but he can't remember exactly where he dumped her body. The police appeal to the public for help finding Sarah's remains. They're looking for a field with a wooden gate, an empty bottle of vodka by the roadside. She will be partly concealed beneath a hedge. Shocked by the news, Alex Connor travels halfway round the world to say goodbye to Sarah, the friend who helped him through his darkest days. When he arrives, however, he finds only a mystery. The field has been located, but someone else has got there first. Sarah's body has been taken. On the other side of the country, a killer is preying on young women. When a girl called Rebecca Wingate vanishes, Detective Paul Kearney knows they only have a week to find her—before her body turns up, drained completely of blood. Kearney seemingly gets a break when a man confesses—but Rebecca's body isn't where it should be. In their hunt to find the living and the dead, Kearney and Alex are drawn together into a sinister world of death fetish and "murderabilia," where relics and mementos of killers are traded, and life is only the first thing a victim will lose.
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Gripping and very well written., Aug 10 2011
By Paul D Brazill - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Still Bleeding (Paperback)
Death has ripples'`Death is contagious'
Sarah is only a young a child when her father talks to her about death and she is haunted by its spectre all of her life.
In fact, Sarah is not the only one of the characters in Steve Mosby's brilliant Still Bleeding to have felt death's ripples.
Her close friend Alex Connor, for instance, has been living in self-imposed exile since his wife's shocking death. But he is propelled back to England when he learns that Sarah has been murdered. And his brother has confessed to the killing.
And then there's Paul Kearney, a homicide detective, who is working on a serial killer case in which women are kidnapped and drained of their blood. Kearney is a man obsessed, brutalised by his work.
Both Conner and Kearney dig deep into the underbelly of society and eventually their investigations intertwine in a gripping story with some great twists and turns.
Still Bleeding is a powerful novel that gives you a great story, wonderfully atmospheric writing, realistic characters and a whip crack pace. And more than a few emotional whallops, too!
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