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Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day Crime and Punishment, this American debut is a glittering noir gem that will appeal to readers of Irvine Welsh, Chuck Palahniuk, Thomas Harris and Dennis Lehane How far would you go for your best friend? If she begged you to, would you kill her? Nathan Lucius, 31, is an ad salesman at a local Cape Town newspaper. Disaffected, hard-drinking and plagued by nightmares, Nathan lives alone with only one true friend, a woman named Madge. But...
2) Exit
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Belinda Bauer is 'Britain's most original crime writer,' one of the few authors in the genre to be longlisted for the Booker Prize. Now she returns with a heart-pounding, heart-breaking, and often hilarious new crime novel in which it's never too late for life to go fatally wrong. Felix Pink is retired. Widowed for more than a dozen years and a painfully literal thinker, he has led a life of routine and is, not unhappily, waiting to die a hopefully...
3) Mercy
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die - until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiance, Sam Talbot, a quadriplegic. He begs to die, but Julie sees hope in a life together. With the help of an organization that opposes physician-assisted suicide, Julie has Sam coming around to her point of view when he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart attack. An autopsy reveals that Sam died of an unusual heart defect, one seen only...