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The Dark Room
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Author
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Minette Walters.
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Publisher
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Putnam
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hardcover, First Edition, Signed Bookplate
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9.25
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ISBN
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9780399140785
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Pages/Publication Date
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381/1996
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Daedalus Item Code
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21346
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Description
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(Autographed First U.S. Edition—Shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Award) Minette Walters followed her John Creasey Award winner The Ice House, her Edgar Award winner The Sculptress, and her Gold Dagger Award winner The Scold's Bridle with this 1995 psychological thriller. Photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes up from an apparent suicide attempt, unable to remember the car crash that put her in the hospital, or what happened to her fiancé and his new girlfriend. After the pair are found bludgeoned to death, just as Jinx's husband had been ten years before, Jinx and her doctor try to recover her memories, unearthing a horrific and desperate past. "Award-winning author Walters has another hit in this riveting, intricately woven tale of murder, jealousy, and sexual obsession.... As the investigation reveals tangled sexual relationships and severely dysfunctional families, police focus on Jinx, and a cat-and-mouse game is played out to a shocking conclusion. Walters sets a new standard for British mysteries, with her fine characterizations and intelligent prose; she has a winner here."—Library Journal "Walters creates characters who are there to be loved, loathed and finally understood. Namby-pamby attitudes towards them will not do. The pace of the book is dictated by the speed with which the heroine pieces together what she might or might not have done; the reader becomes her conspirator and despite the clues, the denouement is a shattering surprise."—Mail on Sunday (London)
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