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Paperback 416 Pages
Published: 05/06/2014
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Four families live in a beautiful stretch of English countryside in magnificent listed houses, built for the old aristocracy. They are the new aristocracy and the elite of their village: financiers, business tycoons, lawyers, doctors, magistrates. They leave their rural idyll only to commute first-class to London for meetings, deals and theatre outings or Heathrow flights to winter sun or half-term skiing. They and their children are protected by investments, pensions and expensive security systems.

But the money is running out in Britain, and as tensions and relationships develop within the group of friends, finally, deep in the English winter, an unthinkable act of violence destroys these dream lives and demonstrates that the biggest threat may come from unexpected places. This horrific act happens on the first pages but Lawson provides dramatic twists and false turns and it is only by the end of the book that we discover who the victims are and who committed the crime.

Mark Lawson's first novel in eight years is his most ambitious yet. Combining ingenious plotting with forensic social comedy, this is a dark and brilliant novel of life in twenty-first-century England.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781447235699
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 383 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 29 mm

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“The Deaths”

I'm not sure what to say about this one. It was bitingly funny at points and I was keen to keep reading to find out how it all tied up.
On the other hand, I didn't like any of the characters. Obviously... More

Hardback edition
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“The Deaths”

Four rich, snobby families in the countryside and one has been murdered, but who? Darkly funny and shocking. This has a rather large cast of characters and it was sometimes hard to keep up with each one but it was a... More

Hardback edition
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“The Deaths”

'The Eight' are four couples who have everything money can buy, perfect afluent lives in the Buckinghamshire commuter belt..... at least that is what everyone thinks. In fact one family will be found dead in... More

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