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Gone to Ground

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by John Harvey
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When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay academic, their first thoughts are of an ill-judged sexual encounter or a fatal lovers' quarrel. But they soon shift focus to the book Bryan was writing about the life and mysterious death of fifties film star Stella Leonard. While Bryan's sister puts herself in danger by conducting her own investigation, Grayson and Walker peel away the secrets of a family blighted by a lust for wealth and power and by its perverted sexuality. On the heels of his critically acclaimed Frank Elder series, John Harvey delivers a page-turner both subtle and devastating.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Will Grayson and Helen Walker

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    May 5, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780547539973

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780547539973
      • File size: 312 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 12, 2007
      Acclaimed British author Harvey takes a break from his popular Charlie Resnick series (Lonely Hearts
      , etc.) with this well-written but unexciting police procedural. Stephen Bryan, a gay academic specializing in film studies, has been bludgeoned to death in his shower. Cambridge Det. Insp. Will Grayson and Det. Sgt. Helen Walker soon focus on Bryan’s spurned lover, Mark McKusick, but the theft of one of Bryan’s manuscripts, which deals with a 1950s film star whose great-niece is now one of the bad girls of British cinema, leads the detectives to wonder whether the professor’s digging into the past led to his murder. While the solution is anticlimactic and the excerpts from a fictional screenplay add little to the plot or atmosphere, Grayson and Walker emerge as fully developed characters whose choice of career has taken its toll on their health and family lives.

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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Languages

  • English

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