Darkhouse. Alex Barclay

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Название Darkhouse
Автор произведения Alex Barclay
Жанр Зарубежные детективы
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Издательство Зарубежные детективы
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      ALEX BARCLAY

       Darkhouse

       Copyright

      This is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      HarperCollinsPublishers

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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2006

      Copyright © Alex Barclay 2005

      James Baldwin quote with the kind permission of

      Gloria Smart for the Estate of James Baldwin

      Cover design layout © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2016

      Cover photographs © Shutterstock.com

      Alex Barclay asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books

      Source ISBN: 9780008180874

      Ebook Edition © MARCH 2010 ISBN: 9780007346875

      Version 2016-05-17

       Praise for Alex Barclay

      ‘The rising star of the hard-boiled crime fiction world, combining wild characters, surprising plots and massive backdrops with a touch of dry humour’ Mirror

      ‘Tense, no-punches-pulled thriller that will have you on the edge of your deckchair’ Woman and Home

      ‘Explosive’ Company

      ‘Darkhouse is a terrific debut by an exciting new writer’ Independent on Sunday

      ‘Compelling’ Glamour

      ‘Excellent summer reading … Barclay has the confidence to move her story along slowly, and deftly explores the relationships between her characters’ Sunday Telegraph

      ‘The thriller of the summer’ Irish Independent

      ‘If you haven’t discovered Alex Barclay, it’s time to jump on the bandwagon’ Image Magazine

       Dedication

       To Brian, my hero

       And to my parents

       ‘The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.’

      James Arthur Baldwin

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Praise for Alex Barclay

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Prologue

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

      

       Chapter Eight

      

       Chapter Nine

      

       Chapter Ten

      

       Chapter Eleven

      

       Chapter Twelve

      

       Chapter Thirteen

      

       Chapter Fourteen

      

       Chapter Fifteen

      

       Chapter Sixteen