Inhalt: _[Hayder] has in no way lost her ability to shock, thrill, entertain and occasionally torture us with her use of words. . . . A chiller to the very end. Hayder deals with Britain at its grittiest.” _Peter Millar, The Times (London)Mo Hayder is a world-class author of gritty, gripping page-turners, winner of the Dagger in the Library from the Crime Writers' Association for outstanding body of work. With her latest novel, she ratchets up the terror to fever pitch. Fast-paced and addictive, Hanging Hill centers around a pair of estranged sisters_one a cop, one a coddled wife fallen on hard times_and the gruesome homicide of a teenage beauty, which exposes the nightmares that lurk at the edges of our safe domestic lives.One morning in picture-perfect Bath, England, a teenage girl's body is found on the towpath of a canal. Lorne Wood_beautiful, popular, and apparently the victim of a disturbingly brutal murder....