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A Bitter Taste

โœ Scribed by Hauxwell, Annie

Book ID
109488975
Publisher
Penguin Random House Australia
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
538 KB
Series
Catherine Berlin 2
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781742537757

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โœฆ Synopsis

Treachery becomes a habit.?
London is in the grip of a stifling heatwave. The?city has slowed to a claustrophobic shuffle.?Heroin-addicted investigator Catherine Berlin suffers while working the lowest?of investigations: matrimonial.
The city's junkies are in the grip of a drought of a different kind. Sonja Kvist a?strung-out ghost from Berlin's past, turns up on her doorstep.?Sonja?daughter is missing. An unpaid debt leaves Berlin no choice but to take the case of the missing ten-year-old.?
Berlin is back. And soon the hunter becomes the hunted: corrupt detectives are on Berlin's tail chasing drugs she doesn't have, a young girl is murdered and the matrimonial case unravels.
And the temperature keeps rising.
*A Bitter Taste?*is addictive, fast-paced crime fiction spiked with grit and grunge.?
'Fast-paced and gripping and just perfect for the crime-fiction junkie.' Geelong Advertiser
'Tough, fast-paced and peopled with believable...

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