Other People Fred Vargas Vintage FF|FH Paperback 2008

Other People Fred Vargas Vintage FF|FH Paperback 2008It is summer in small town Havenport. Protected from the world by her devoted mother, fifteen year old June is content and completely self absorbed. Her biggest concern is where she will be holidaying this year. When June's father reappears after twelve years in Australia, she is thrust abruptly into a different life: new house, town, school. She soon suspects that she does not know the full story about her father, and when she meets Tony Townsend, he

John Boyne gives us a redemptive story of a father and a son on a moving journey to mend their troubled lives

Mary Towne is convinced she's seen him alive - and wants missing persons investigator David Raker to find him

even as she questions her future in Ballina

a novelette and a short story

Margaret's daughter thinks her memory is getting worse

As the night darkens

With the killer's possible connections to a local church and the town's harrowing history weighing on him

And for Department Q's Assad

But before she can rendezvous with the major

For black men this figure rises to 1 in 3

a chain of events begins which sees all four pursued by the police

Mark Ablett hosts a small party of diverse guests including a widow and her young daughter