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THIEF'S MARK

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

THIEF'S MARK

Contributors:

By (Author) Carla Neggers

ISBN:

9781489248589

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Imprint:

Mira

Publication Date:

2nd November 2017

Country:

Australia

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

384

Dimensions:

Width 110mm, Height 171mm, Spine 22mm

Weight:

170g

Description


A murder in a quiet English village, longburied secrets and a man's search for answers about his traumatic past entangle FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan in the latest edgeofyourseat Sharpe & Donovan novel.

As a young boy, Oliver York witnessed the murder of his wealthy parents in their London apartment. The killers kidnapped him and held him in an isolated Scottish ruin, but he escaped. Now, after thirty years on the run, one of the two men Oliver identified as his tormentors may have surfaced.

Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan are enjoying the final day of their Irish honeymoon when a breakin at the home of Emma's grandfather points to Oliver. But when they arrive at York's country home, a man is dead and Oliver has vanished.

As the danger mounts, new questions arise about Oliver's account of his boyhood trauma. Do they dare trust him The stakes are high, and Emma and Colin must unravel the decadesold tangle of secrets and lies before a killer strikes again.

Author Bio

New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers is always plotting her next adventure, whether in life or for one of her books. Her fertile imagination and curious nature make her ready for anything. It is also these qualities that sparked her love of reading as a child and continue to drive her passion for storytelling today. With her trademark blend of action, suspense and down-to-earth, realistic characters caught up in extraordinary circumstances, her novels never fail to take her readers on an exciting journey. Carla began writing as a youngster, when she'd grab a pad and pen and climb a tree to spin her stories. Growing up in western Massachusetts, she is the third of seven children. Just before she was born, her Dutch immigrant father and Southern-born mother packed up the car with two kids and all their belongings and headed north to start a new life. They settled in an eighteenth-century carriage house on ninety acres and began a long process of renovation. After graduating as valedictorian of her high school class, she went on to major in journalism at Boston University, graduating magna cum laude. She enjoyed a brief stint as an arts and entertainment writer, then turned to writing fiction full-time and now has more than fifty books to her credit. Travel and research both play a large part in Carla's writing. She can often trace the germination of a plot to the exact moment of inspiration. It's part of the fun of being a writeryou never know what will spark an idea. For example, on a trip to the Netherlands some years ago, we did a tour of a canal-like waterway, she says. I kept thinkingwhat would happen if a dead body floated by What if it was an American It's the way my mind worksaround me, everyone else was admiring the quaint countryside. I was devising a murder. Once a plot is hatched, the real researching begins. Her novels have taken her atop the northeast's highest peaks, onto a shooting range with a police academy instructor and across the world as she scouts out locations and seeks the authenticity that imbues her novels. The author's greatest pleasure comes in those moments when she feels she's gotten the story just rightwhen it all comes together on the pages of her book, exactly the way she's envisioned the tale in her mind. Then, when readers connect with the story, her satisfaction is complete. Everything comes down to the finished book, says the author. When I hear from a reader that the story resonated, and that he or she had a great time reading it, I know I've done my job and done it well. When she's not working on her next book, Carla enjoys traveling, hiking and kayaking. She's set out to become a four-thousand-footer by climbing all forty-eight peaks over four-thousand feet in the New Hampshire White Mountains, and she's always planning the next tripand the next adventureeither of which just might inspire a new story. Carla lives in Vermont, where she and her husband have recently renovated their mountain house not far from picturesque Quechee Gorge.

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