Girl at Midnight
the bestselling Polish crime sensation
Published on 11. July 2019
Book
Hardback
544 pages
978-1-4736-3041-3 (ISBN)
Description
Girl at Midnight has sold over a million copies in Poland and Katarzyna Bonda has become her country's undisputed Queen of Crime.
For seven years, Sasza Zaluska has lived with her little girl in the north of England. Far from her previous job as an undercover cop, far from her dependence on alcohol and the traumatic case that made her flee from the police, her family and her native Poland.
But now she is coming back.
This time, Sasza is looking for a quieter life. She has studied to become a psychological profiler and she soon picks up a freelance job to check out some threats made against the owner of a nightclub.
But no sooner has Sasza visited the club than a man is murdered there and Sasza finds herself drawn back towards the world she left behind.
The dead man is a musician - famous for one song in particular: Girl at Midnight. Both the song and the crime seem to be connected to a double tragedy of years before, when a brother and sister both died on the same day.
Now Sasza Zaluska must follow a crooked, complex trail from a violent past to a more sophisticated criminal present, in which the gangsters have corrupted every level of society.
For seven years, Sasza Zaluska has lived with her little girl in the north of England. Far from her previous job as an undercover cop, far from her dependence on alcohol and the traumatic case that made her flee from the police, her family and her native Poland.
But now she is coming back.
This time, Sasza is looking for a quieter life. She has studied to become a psychological profiler and she soon picks up a freelance job to check out some threats made against the owner of a nightclub.
But no sooner has Sasza visited the club than a man is murdered there and Sasza finds herself drawn back towards the world she left behind.
The dead man is a musician - famous for one song in particular: Girl at Midnight. Both the song and the crime seem to be connected to a double tragedy of years before, when a brother and sister both died on the same day.
Now Sasza Zaluska must follow a crooked, complex trail from a violent past to a more sophisticated criminal present, in which the gangsters have corrupted every level of society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
802 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4736-3041-3 (9781473630413)
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Person
Katarzyna Bonda is the most popular crime writer in Poland. Her two series, the Hubert Meyer trilogy and The Elements of Sasza Zaluska are both massive bestsellers and have sold well over two million copies.
She has also written true crime - Polish Murderesses and An Imperfect Crime as well as a creative writing manual Type Writer.
Girl at Midnight received the Readers' Award at the 2015 International Crime Festival in Wroclaw, while The White Mercedes won the 2015 Empik Bestseller Award. Foreign rights to the books have been sold in eight languages.
Katarzyna lives in Warsaw with her daughter and a dog.
She has also written true crime - Polish Murderesses and An Imperfect Crime as well as a creative writing manual Type Writer.
Girl at Midnight received the Readers' Award at the 2015 International Crime Festival in Wroclaw, while The White Mercedes won the 2015 Empik Bestseller Award. Foreign rights to the books have been sold in eight languages.
Katarzyna lives in Warsaw with her daughter and a dog.