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joy’
    Daily Mail
    THE ECHO
    ‘It grips like steel . . . Passion, compassion,
intelligence and romance are what Walters
offers, with no quarter for squeamish cowards’
    Mail on Sunday
    THE BREAKER
    ‘Stands head and shoulders above the
vast majority of crime novels . . . Existing
fans will love
The Breaker
; new readers
will be instant converts’
    Daily Express
    THE SHAPE OF SNAKES
    ‘Breaking all the rules of popular fiction,
Minette Walters asks as much of her readers
as many literary novelists, and yet she offers
them a book as gripping as any thriller’
    Times Literary Supplement
    ACID ROW
    ‘Humane intelligence enables Walters
to twist and turn her plot . . .
Acid Row

is a breathtaking achievement’
    Daily Telegraph
    FOX EVIL
    ‘
Fox Evil
is the work of a writer
at the peak of her confidence and
supreme ability’
    The Times
    DISORDERED MINDS
    ‘A powerful, acute and vivid work from
a staggeringly talented writer’
    Observer
    THE TINDER BOX
    ‘If there wasn’t a recognised school
of crime writing called Home Counties
noir before, there is now. Minette Walters
invented it and remains the
undisputed Head Girl’
    Birmingham Post
    THE DEVIL’S FEATHER
    ‘One of the most powerful yet nuanced
practitioners of the psychological thriller
. . . always keeps the narrative momentum
cracked up to a fierce degree’
    Daily Express
    CHICKENFEED (A QUICK READ)
    ‘A marvellous little story, thoroughly
intimate with human nastiness’
    Evening Standard
    THE CHAMELEON’S SHADOW
    ‘No wonder Minette Walters is the
country’s bestselling female crime writer.
But even this label does not exactly do
justice to the scope and breadth of
her gripping, terrifying novels . . .
The
Chameleon’s Shadow
is another classic’
    Daily Mirror

A Dreadful Murder
    Minette Walters is a bestselling crime writer. She has written 12 novels and has won the CWA John Creasey Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award and two CWA Gold Daggers for Fiction.
A Dreadful Murder
is her second Quick Read, following
Chickenfeed,
which was voted the 2006 Quick Reads Readers’ Favourite. Minette Walters lives in Dorset with her husband.

Also by Minette Walters
    The Ice House
    The Sculptress
    The Scold’s Bridle
    The Dark Room
    The Echo
    The Breaker
    The Shape of Snakes
    Acid Row
    Fox Evil
    Disordered Minds
    The Tinder Box
    The Devil’s Feather
    Chickenfeed

(a Quick Read)
    The Chameleon’s Shadow

First published 2013 by Pan Books
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