Persons Unknown: A Novel (Manon Bradshaw)

Persons Unknown: A Novel (Manon Bradshaw)

In this brilliant crime novel from the author of Missing, Presumed, a detective investigates her most personal case yet: a high-profile murder in which her own family falls under suspicion.

â€œ[Susie] Steiner populates this hot-button narrative with achingly human characters, but no one compares to the hormonal, mordantly funny mom-cop who will stop at nothing to save her son.â€â€”People (Book of the Week)

As dusk falls, a young man staggers through a park, far from home, bleeding from a stab wound. He dies where he falls, cradled by a stranger, a womanâ€™s name on his lips in his last seconds of life.

Detective Manon Bradshaw handles only cold cases. Five months pregnant, in pursuit of a work-life balance rather than romantic love, sheâ€™s focused on being a good mother to her two children: her adopted twelve-year-old son, Fly Dent, and the new baby.

But the man died just yards from the police station where she works, so Manon canâ€™t help taking an interest. And as she sidles in on the briefing she learns that the victim, a banker from London worth millions, is more closely linked to her than she could have imagined. When the case begins to circle in on Manonâ€™s home and her family, she finds herself pitted against the colleagues she once held dear: Davy Walker and Harriet Harper.

Can Manon separate what she knows about the people she loves from the suspicion hanging over them? Can she investigate the evidence just as she would with any other case? Persons Unknown shows acclaimed author Susie Steiner writing her most intricate, suspenseful novel yet.

Praise for Persons Unknown

â€œA police procedural as concerned with the mysteries of human hearts as with who stabbed a banker to death at a park in Cambridgeshire. [Full of] winning prose, sympathetic characters and an appreciation of lifeâ€™s joys as keen as a knowledge of its dangers.â€â€”The Wall Street Journal

â€œSusie Steiner blends the police procedural and the human drama perfectly.â€â€”The Charlotte Observer

â€œ[Steiner] has created a masterful mystery within an engaging narrative perfect for Kate Atkinson fans. Readers will be astonished by the unexpected turns at the conclusion,Â which will leave fans eagerly awaiting the next book. This series needs to be snapped up by the BBC or PBS.â€â€”BooklistÂ (starred review)

â€œ[An] engrossing stunner, incorporating social justice issues into the narrative, along with superb plotting, dark humor, and excellent characterizations.â€â€”Library Journal (starred review)
Country USA
Brand Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 812987756
Model 9780812987751
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2018-03-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812987751

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	812987756
Model	9780812987751
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2018-03-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812987751

Persons Unknown: A Novel (Manon Bradshaw)

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