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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Underland
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'Some secrets are buried deep ... Set in both Liverpool and Hollywood, Underland is another exciting, uncompromising thriller from the author of A Dark Place to Die. At first glance, the horrifically bloody crime scene in suburban Liverpool looks like a straightforward murder-suicide. The husband kills the wife and then himself. Simple. Or it would be if it wasn't for the dead couple's missing teenage son, Nicky. With Nicky's holiday job on a Hollywood movie being shot in the city bringing unwanted press attention, newly promoted DCI Frank Keane knows that time is running out to find the missing boy. The only question is: is Nicky victim or killer? When it comes, the answer is worse than anyone expects. For the deaths in Liverpool are just the start of a twisted international killing spree by an ambitious psychopath with a point to prove. As the odds, and the stakes, stack up, Keane has no option but to mount an unorthodox operation on unfamiliar and dangerous territory. And suddenly a cop from Liverpool might just be the only one who can prevent a killing that would shock the world...(Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: To Liverpool and Los Angeles
  • Epigraph:

    'If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves,

    they may pass for excellent men.'

    Theseus, Act 5, Scene 1, A Midsummer Night's Dream,

    William Shakespeare

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House Australia , 2013 .
      Extent: 438p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: May 2013
      ISBN: 1742753965, 9781742753966

Works about this Work

Underland William Yeoman , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 10 August 2013; (p. 21)
Underland William Yeoman , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 10 August 2013; (p. 21)
Last amended 27 Nov 2013 09:59:20
Settings:
  • Hollywood, Los Angeles, California,
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    United States of America (USA),
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    Americas,
  • Liverpool, Merseyside,
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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