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The Birdwatcher
William Shaw
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Description for The Birdwatcher
Paperback. Dark, intelligent crime novel about a policeman with a secret past, and an emotive exploration of violence within the family Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 280.
WHAT DRIVES GOOD MEN TO MURDER? 'If you're not a fan yet, why not?' Val McDermid 'The most gripping book I've read in years. William Shaw is, quite simply, an outstanding storyteller' Peter May 'Grips the reader by the throat and never lets go' Independent Sergeant William South has always avoided investigating murder. A passionate birdwatcher and quiet man, he has few relationships and prefers it that way. But when his only friend is found brutally beaten, South's detachment is tested. Not only is he bereft - it seems that there's a connection between the suspect and himself. For South has a secret. He knows the kind of rage that killed his friend. He knows the kind of man who could do it. He knows, because Sergeant William South himself is a murderer. Moving from the storm-lashed, bird-wheeling skies of the Kent Coast to the wordless war of the Troubles, The Birdwatcher is a crime novel of suspense, intelligence and powerful humanity about fathers and sons, grief and guilt and facing the darkness within.
Product Details
Publisher
riverrun
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784297244
SKU
V9781784297244
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Ref
99-99
About William Shaw
William Shaw has been shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger, longlisted for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year and nominated for a Barry Award. A regular at festivals, he organises panel talks and CWA events across the south east. Shaw is the author of the acclaimed Breen & Tozer crime series: A Song from Dead Lips, A House of Knives, A Book of Scars and Sympathy for the Devil; and the standalone bestseller The Birdwatcher. He is writing a new crime series starring the character DS Alexandra Cupidi from The Birdwatcher, the first of which is Salt Lane. He worked as a journalist for over twenty years and lives in Brighton.
Reviews for The Birdwatcher
If you're not a fan yet, why not?
Val McDermid
The Birdwatcher: the most gripping book I've read in years. William Shaw is, quite simply, an outstanding storyteller
Peter May
Packs an emotional punch that hits all the harder because of the absence of histrionics. Crime Books of the Year
Telegraph
An astoundingly good crime novel
Elly Griffiths
A gripping plot, atmospheric setting, highly believable characters and dialogue you can imagine real people saying, make this a contender for thriller of the year
Sun
a fine, atmospheric, emotionally compelling thriller
John Williams
Mail on Sunday
What a pleasure it is when one discovers a writer who combines ironclad storytelling techniques with the linguistic finesse of more literary novelists. William Shaw is surely such a writer, a man whose command of narrative grips the reader by the throat from page one, and never lets go - but also allows every word to register with exactly the right amount of resonance. And that's not to forget the idiomatic dialogue, which is another Shaw specialty . . . The Birdwatcher, it might be argued, is Shaw's most accomplished (and most visceral) book yet . . . [The] unsparing treatment of the personality of South - and the dark drives that can lead people to murder - that is at the chilling heart of this book
Barry Forshaw
Independent
A brilliantly constructed thriller, told part in flashback to his traumatic past, it's utterly compulsive, written in sharp, unsentimental style, and with a wonderfully atmospheric storm-battered setting
Sunday Mirror
Superb description of a haunting, blighted landscape. His best book so far.
C. J. Sansom
Val McDermid
The Birdwatcher: the most gripping book I've read in years. William Shaw is, quite simply, an outstanding storyteller
Peter May
Packs an emotional punch that hits all the harder because of the absence of histrionics. Crime Books of the Year
Telegraph
An astoundingly good crime novel
Elly Griffiths
A gripping plot, atmospheric setting, highly believable characters and dialogue you can imagine real people saying, make this a contender for thriller of the year
Sun
a fine, atmospheric, emotionally compelling thriller
John Williams
Mail on Sunday
What a pleasure it is when one discovers a writer who combines ironclad storytelling techniques with the linguistic finesse of more literary novelists. William Shaw is surely such a writer, a man whose command of narrative grips the reader by the throat from page one, and never lets go - but also allows every word to register with exactly the right amount of resonance. And that's not to forget the idiomatic dialogue, which is another Shaw specialty . . . The Birdwatcher, it might be argued, is Shaw's most accomplished (and most visceral) book yet . . . [The] unsparing treatment of the personality of South - and the dark drives that can lead people to murder - that is at the chilling heart of this book
Barry Forshaw
Independent
A brilliantly constructed thriller, told part in flashback to his traumatic past, it's utterly compulsive, written in sharp, unsentimental style, and with a wonderfully atmospheric storm-battered setting
Sunday Mirror
Superb description of a haunting, blighted landscape. His best book so far.
C. J. Sansom