R.J. Ellory wins the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010!
Against strong competition, R.J. Ellory’s novel A Simple Act of Violence has won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010. To celebrate Bookdagger gives you the chance to read the first chapter, listen to an extract and find out more about the author.
Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a fourth murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, there were few people that could ignore it.
Detective Robert Miller is assigned to the case, and rapidly uncover a complication. The victims do not officially exist. Their personal details do not register on any known systems. And as Miller unearths ever more disturbing facts, he starts to face truths so far-removed from his own reality that he begins to fear for his life.
Washington has a new menace… a serial killer whose victims don’t exist…
R.J. Ellory is the author of seven previous novels including the bestselling A Quiet Belief In Angels, which was a Richard & Judy Book Club selection in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Barry Award, the 813 Trophy, the Quebec Bookselers’ Prize and was winner of the Nouvel Observatour Crime Fiction Prize. His work has been translated into twenty-three languages. R.J. Ellory currently lives in England. Find out more about R.J. Ellory at his YouTube channel.
