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Is part of The Catherine Berlin Series Annie Hauxwell , 2012 series - author novel (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 A Bitter Taste
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'Treachery becomes a habit.

London is in the grip of a stifling heatwave. The parched city has slowed to a claustrophobic shuffle and there's no end in sight. Heroin-addicted investigator Catherine Berlin suffers while working the nadir of investigations: matrimonial.

The city's junkies are in the grip of a drought of a different kind. A strung-out ghost from Berlin's past turns up on her doorstep: Sonja Kvist's daughter is missing. Despite Berlin's reluctance, Sonja reminds her of an old debt and Berlin agrees to search for the ten year old.

Berlin is back. Soon the hunter becomes the hunted - corrupt detectives are on Berlin's tail chasing drugs she doesn't have, a young girl is murdered and the matrimonial case unravels. The temperature keeps rising.

A Bitter Taste is fast-paced, addictive crime spiked with grit and grunge.' (Publisher's blurb)

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin Books , 2013 .
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      Extent: 312p.
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      • Published:22/05/2013
      ISBN: 9781921901188 (pbk.)
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      Extent: 320p.
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      • Published July 18, 2013
      ISBN: 9781448107414

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Between the Lines Annie Hauxwell , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 29 June 2013; (p. 21)
[Review] A Bitter Taste Mary Dalmau , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , April vol. 92 no. 5 2013; (p. 20)

— Review of A Bitter Taste Annie Hauxwell , 2013 single work novel
[Review] A Bitter Taste Mary Dalmau , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , April vol. 92 no. 5 2013; (p. 20)

— Review of A Bitter Taste Annie Hauxwell , 2013 single work novel
Between the Lines Annie Hauxwell , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 29 June 2013; (p. 21)
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