Looks like a good read Elaine. Not an author I've heard of before. Shell. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Elaine Harris (Rivendell)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:46 AM To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [ebooktalk] FW: New Ed Chatterton thriller, Underland > From Random House. Not an author I know anything about beyond what is > mentioned here. See below. > > > > Elaine > > > > Compelling new crime thriller, Underland, by Australian author Ed > Chatterton. This is his suspenseful and uncompromising follow up to his > 2012 novel A Dark Place to Die. > > > > At first glance, the horrifically bloody crime scene in suburban Liverpool > looks like a straightforward murder-suicide. The husband kills the wife and > then himself. Simple. > Or it would be if it wasn't for the dead couple's missing teenage son, > Nicky. > With Nicky's holiday job on a Hollywood movie being shot in the city > bringing unwanted press attention, newly promoted DCI Frank Keane knows that > time is running out to find the missing boy. The only question is: is Nicky > victim or killer? > When it comes, the answer is worse than anyone expects. > The deaths in Liverpool are just the start of a twisted international > killing spree by an ambitious psychopath with a point to prove. > As the odds, and the stakes, stack up, Keane has no option but to mount an > unorthodox operation on unfamiliar and dangerous territory. > And suddenly a cop from Liverpool might just be the only one who can prevent > a killing that would shock the world . . . > > Not only is Ed emerging as an exciting new voice in the crime genre, but he > has also been working as 'Martin Chatterton', successfully writing > children's books and Young Adult fiction for over twenty years. He divides > his time between Australia and the UK and is married with two children. > > > > > >