The Devil's Playground: Where horror is silent . . . - Hardcover

Russell, Craig

 
9780349135281: The Devil's Playground: Where horror is silent . . .
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0349135282 ISBN 13: 9780349135281
Verlag: Constable, 2023

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From international award-winning author Craig Russell comes another dark thriller, for readers of Neil Gaiman, Caleb Carr and Stephen King.

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Craig Russell's novels have been published in twenty-five languages, four have been made into major films in Germany, in one of which he has a cameo role as a detective. He has won the CWA Dagger in the Library and the McIlvanney Prize (for which he has been shortlisted another twice), and has previously been shortlisted for the CWA Golden Dagger, the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, and the SNCF Prix Polar in France. A former police officer, Craig Russell is the only non-German to have been awarded the Polizeistern - the Hamburg Police's Police Star.

When not writing, Craig Russell paints, cooks and reads, but not simultaneously.

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Praise for The Devil's Playground, selected as one of Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2023


'Superb! This breathtaking tale seamlessly blends noir, gothic and mystery in a way that's unique to crime fiction. Bravo!'
--Jeffery Deaver, author of The Bone Collector and Hunting Time

'A blend of murder, noir, and horror... totally engaging.'
Kathy Reichs, bestselling author of the Temperance Brennan series

'Horrifying, mesmerising, beautifully imagined. The Devil's Playground is Craig Russell at his unrivalled best.' Chris Whitaker


'The Devil's Playground has a depth of period detail and atmosphere that lifts it above the ordinary. It's elegant, absorbing and thrilling.' Michael J. Malone

'Addictive. . . the most sheerly entertaining novel I've raced through in at least a year. . . fresh, forceful, elegant but wild' --A.J. Finn, No.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

'Craig Russell walks a razor's edge between gothic suspense and horror. . . a masterful thriller' -- Lincoln Child, No.1 New York Times bestselling author

'When it comes to Gothic crime, Craig Russell is peerless. Absolutely stunning.' - M. W. Craven

'Brilliantly written, with repeated surprises' The Critic

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FROM CWA DAGGER AND DOUBLE McILVANNEY AWARD WINNER CRAIG RUSSELL COMES ANOTHER DARK, GRIPPING MASTERPIECE . . .

A dark, riveting thriller set in 1920s Hollywood about "the greatest horror movie ever made", the curse said to surround it, and a deadly search, decades later, for the single copy rumoured still to exist.

1927: Hollywood studio fixer Mary Rourke is called to the palatial home of "the most desirable woman in the world", silent movie actress Norma Carlton, star of The Devil's Playground. When Rourke finds Carlton dead, she wonders if the dark rumours she's heard are true: that The Devil's Playground really is a cursed production. But nothing in Hollywood is ever what it seems, and cynical fixer Rourke, more used to covering up the truth for studio bosses, finds herself seeking it out.

1967: Paul Conway, film historian and fervid silent movie aficionado, is on the trail of a tantalizing rumour: that a single copy of The Devil's Playground-a Holy Grail for film buffs that was supposedly cursed and lost to time-may exist. His search takes him deep into the Mojave Desert, to an isolated hotel that hasn't changed in forty years but harbours only one occupant-and a shocking secret.

Separated by decades, both Rourke and Conway begin to suspect that the real Devil's Playground is in fact Hollywood itself...

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Verlag
Constable
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349135282
ISBN 13 
9780349135281
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
464
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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