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The second stunning literary crime novel in the Song Cycle trilogy from the acclaimed author of Booker-longlisted Peacetime, and The Book of the Heathen.
In this second book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with Cradle Song, Private investigator Leo Rivers is approached by the mother of a girl who disappeared a year earlier in violent and mysterious circumstances. Investigating both the background to this disappearance, and the man held to be responsible, Rivers is drawn through a long, hot summer into a world of human-trafficking and governmental corruption at every turn, each unraveled piece of the mystery moving him further from the vanished girl and deeper into a web of exploitation, greed, temptation, revenge and violence from which even he is eventually unable to extricate himself without unforeseen and tragic consequences.
In this second book in the acclaimed trilogy that began with Cradle Song, Private investigator Leo Rivers is approached by the mother of a girl who disappeared a year earlier in violent and mysterious circumstances. Investigating both the background to this disappearance, and the man held to be responsible, Rivers is drawn through a long, hot summer into a world of human-trafficking and governmental corruption at every turn, each unraveled piece of the mystery moving him further from the vanished girl and deeper into a web of exploitation, greed, temptation, revenge and violence from which even he is eventually unable to extricate himself without unforeseen and tragic consequences.
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Robert Edric’s previous novels include In Desolate Heaven, The Sword Cabinet, The Book of the Heathen, which was shortlisted for the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award, Peacetime, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize, Cradle Song and Siren Song.
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Praise for Cradle Song:
“A rewarding experience . . . This is murder at its most foul, crime at the deep end.”
—Spectator
“Cradle Song is a superbly paced book. . . . This is classic crime noir... Edric can also produce beautiful prose and arresting images as well as incisive social satire... Magnificently achieved.”
—Giles Foden
“A rewarding experience . . . This is murder at its most foul, crime at the deep end.”
—Spectator
“Cradle Song is a superbly paced book. . . . This is classic crime noir... Edric can also produce beautiful prose and arresting images as well as incisive social satire... Magnificently achieved.”
—Giles Foden
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0385605765
- ISBN 13 9780385605762
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages319
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