- Fiction, Suicide victims, Policewomen, Psychological fiction
Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case - this case - has gotten under her skin.
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and meticulous.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Martin Amis
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 175
- Publisher
- Anagrama, Harmony Books, Jonathan Cape
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- Russian, English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780099287988
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Martin Louis Amis (25 August 1949 – 19 May 2023) was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels *Money* (1984) and *London Fields* (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir *Experience* and was twice listed for the Booker Prize (shortlisted in 1991 for *Time's Arrow* and longlisted in 2003 for *Yellow Dog).* Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, *The Times* named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
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