The Shape of Snakes
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'I could never decide whether Mad Annie was murdered because she was mad or because she was black.'
It is 1978 in London-the winter of discontent. Strikes are an everyday occurrence and the Ranelaghs' neighbour, Mad Annie, is discovered dying in the gutter, almost obscured by piles of rubbish.
The other residents of Graham Road do little to disguise their satisfaction at her death and M. Ranelagh, the narrator, takes up a solitary, and dangerously unpopular, defence against the vilification of Mad Annie. So dangerous that M. and her husband Sam flee the poisonous climate of England.
Twenty years later, they return and M. begins acting on her secretly and painstakingly collected research to piece together what really happened.
But is it justice for Annie she's after or is it revenge for something very different?
The acclaimed author of six award-winning best sellers, The Shape of Snakes is Minette Walters's seventh superb thriller. Four of her previous novels have also been successfully made into television miniseries.
Author: Minette Walters
Format: Paperback, 408 pages, 110mm x 180mm
Published: 2001, Allen & Unwin, Australia
Genre: Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Description
'I could never decide whether Mad Annie was murdered because she was mad or because she was black.'
It is 1978 in London-the winter of discontent. Strikes are an everyday occurrence and the Ranelaghs' neighbour, Mad Annie, is discovered dying in the gutter, almost obscured by piles of rubbish.
The other residents of Graham Road do little to disguise their satisfaction at her death and M. Ranelagh, the narrator, takes up a solitary, and dangerously unpopular, defence against the vilification of Mad Annie. So dangerous that M. and her husband Sam flee the poisonous climate of England.
Twenty years later, they return and M. begins acting on her secretly and painstakingly collected research to piece together what really happened.
But is it justice for Annie she's after or is it revenge for something very different?
The acclaimed author of six award-winning best sellers, The Shape of Snakes is Minette Walters's seventh superb thriller. Four of her previous novels have also been successfully made into television miniseries.
The Shape of Snakes