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Gone to Ground

John Harvey: Gone to Ground (USA 2008)

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When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker, investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay academic, their first thoughts are of an ill-judged sexual encounter or a fatal lovers' quarrel: The man's face was like a glove that had been pulled inside out. But after they notice Bryan's computer is missing, their focus soon widens. Could the attack be connected to the book Bryan was writing about the life and mysterious death of fifties film star Stella Leonard?

Convinced that Bryan had discovered a shocking truth about Leonard's rich and influential family, his sister Lesley throws herself into her own amateur investigation. But as Grayson and Walker delve into the past and the circumstances of Bryan's death, they find a vortex of lust, power, and wealth in which nothing is straightforward -- and no one is safe.

On the heels of his acclaimed Frank Elder series, John Harvey delivers a page-turner both subtle and devastating.

John Harvey: Gone to Ground. A Novel. Harcourt, ISBN: 0151013632 (February, 2008), 387 p., $25.00.

 

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Gone to Ground

John Harvey: Gone to Ground (UK 2008)

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Will's first thought when he saw the man's face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out...
Stephen Bryan, a gay academic, is found brutally murdered in his bathroom. Will Grayson and Helen Walker, police detectives investigating the case, at first assume that his death is the result of an ill-judged sexual encounter: rough trade gone wrong.

But doubts are soon raised. Bryan's laptop has gone missing -- could the murder be connected to a biography he was writing on the life and mysterious death of fifties screen legend, Stella Leonard?

Convinced there's a link, Bryan's sister Lesley sets out to prove that Bryan had uncovered a dangerous truth, and that -- desperate to keep it hidden -- Stella Leonard's rich and influential family have silenced him.

But soon both Lesley and Helen Walker find themselves victims of the violence that swirls around them, as gradually the investigation uncovers the secrets of a family corrupted by lust, wealth and power...

John Harvey: Gone to Ground. Arrow, ISBN: 0099489961 (January, 2008), 481 p., £6.99.

 

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Gone to Ground

John Harvey: Gone to Ground (UK 2007)

From the Publisher:
From one of Britain's leading crime writers -- Flesh and Blood, Ash and Bone -- comes his new book -- sure to go straight to the top of the bestseller lists.
Will's first thought when he saw the man's face: it was like a glove that had been pulled inside out. When police detective Will Grayson and his partner, Helen Walker are called upon to investigate the violent death of Stephen Bryan, a gay Cambridge academic, their first thoughts are of an ill-judged sexual encounter, of rough trade gone wrong. But as their investigation widens, their attention focuses on the biography Bryan was writing about the life and death of fifties film star, Stella Leonard, whose death from drowning, when the car she was driving skidded mysteriously off a lonely Fenland road, uncannily echoed the climax of her most notorious film, Shattered Glass. With Bryan's journalist sister egging them on, and bringing herself into mortal danger as she conducts her own investigation, Will and Helen gradually peel away the secrets of a family blighted by a lust for wealth and power and its own perverted sexuality.

John Harvey: Gone to Ground. Heinemann, ISBN: 043401446X (March, 2007), 388 p., £12.99.

 

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