Charlie has grown up with betrayal and lies - ever since her mother left her, her dad and her brother, Brad, to fend for themselves. Brad's always been a handful, in and out of trouble with the law, but it's usually just silly stuff, messing about. Not this time, now he's in real trouble. Throwing stones off a motorway bridge, killing a motorist...It's just not Brad's style. So when he confesses, Charlie starts an investigation of her own. But as she searches for the truth, she unearths a bigger more frightening crime, and discovers things about her brother, his best friend Denny, and her long-lost mother, that change her life for ever. In the end, trying to prove her brother is not guilty causes her to lose her own innocence, for good...
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Hachette Children's Group
Zielgruppe
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 10 mm
Breite: 243 mm
Dicke: 310 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7500-2392-4 (9780750023924)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Anne Cassidy has an established reputation in the world of young adult fiction. She has published several titles for Scholastic, including the East End Murders series for Point Crime as well as her stand alone novels, Talking to Strangers and the Hidden Child, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 1998. Her 2004 teenage novel, Looking for JJ was published to great acclaim in 2004 and has been shortlisted for major prizes, including the Guardian Fiction Prize and won the BookTrust Teenage Prize in 2004. Anne's dead pan, traditional crime style accompanies poignant and original storylines, and draws very much on her own experiences for her novels, writing about issues that are close to her heart. She lives in London.
