HSE FAME: 3 (Detective Nick Belsey) - Tapa blanda

Críticas

Extremely entertaining . This is a real nail-biter and a great ride for readers. --Suspense Magazine"

As eerie as le Carr? s Berlin or Larsson s Stockholm. --Evening Standard (UK)"

Harris has a terrific sense of place, hurtling between the wealthiest and most-run-down areas of London. But the cleverest thing about his third Belsey novel is the way the plot unfolds in a chilling and totally unexpected direction. --Sunday Times (London)"

Praise for Deep Shelter: Extremely entertaining . This is a real nail-biter and a great ride for readers. --Suspense Magazine"

Non-stop activity is exhaustingly gripping, and Oliver Harris is punchy and perceptive. --The Times (UK)"

Harris has a rare ability to combine storytelling that has a freewheeling, improvisatory feel with a plot that has been long hours in the concocting. --Telegraph (UK)"

Meticulously plotted, with a delirious, haunted, paranoid atmosphere. Belsey is an irresistible mixture of the reliable and the reckless, laconic and tightly wound Harris writes beautifully Imbued with an uncommon subtlety and intelligence, House of Fame is a superb novel. --Irish Times"

Praise for The Hollow Man: A twisting spiral of lies and corruption, a pitch-perfect portrait of contemporary London and a beguiling bastard of a hero what a recipe for a great read. --Val McDermid"

A picture perfect portrait of contemporary London. --Val McDermid"

A fast-paced thriller that is also nuanced and evocative hats off to Harris, who has, once again, managed it with style and authority. --The Guardian"

Reseña del editor

Hailed by Val McDermid as “a beguiling bastard of a hero,” Oliver Harris’s shrewd, cynical, and brilliant London detective, Nick Belsey, investigates a child’s disappearance in this third novel (after the “heart-pounding”Deep Shelter).

Anyone would want Amber Knight’s life. Twenty-seven, rich and beautiful, she’s living the dream. Her solo music career has eclipsed those of her former bandmates, and she has the cars and clothes and houses that go along with her position at the top of the A-List.

So why has she started acting so strangely?

At least, that’s how it seems to Nick Belsey. A less-celebrated resident of North London, Belsey’s decade-long career at Hampstead CID is coming to an abrupt end but he still can’t seem to kick his habit of getting into serious trouble. When he’s asked by a desperate mother to help find her only son, Belsey’s investigation pulls him into Amber’s hedonistic world. He discovers a realm of excess, obsession, lust and greed—precisely as he’d hoped.

But he isn’t prepared for the blood trail to lead to Amber herself.

As one sickening crime is followed by another, Belsey finds himself chasing answers as his only means of survival. It may be too late to save his reputation but he’s not ready to die just yet. Not at the hands of a celebrity. Utterly harrowing and building to an intense, fraught-laden climax, The House of Fame is Oliver Harris’ best work to date.