The Breaker
By (Author) Minette Walters
Allen & Unwin
Allen & Unwin
1st February 2006
Australia
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
368
Width 110mm, Height 180mm
314g
'A masterful combination of suspense, mystery and psychology in short, another triumph.' CANBERRA TIMES
A woman's brutally damaged body washes up on a lonely beach. Twelve hours later, her three-year-old daughter is found, wandering abandoned twenty miles away from her mother.
Why was Kate Sumner murdered, yet her child, a witness, allowed to live Police investigation centres on a young actor, a loner with an obsession for pornography who lies about his relationship with Kate. And what of her Is she the 'respectable' woman her husband claims her to be And why does their daughter scream in terror every time he tries to pick her up
The acclaimed author of nine international bestsellers, Walters has established herself as one of today's leading crime writers. Most of her previous novels have been made into television mini-series. She lives with her husband and two children in Dorset, England.