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The Girl They All Forgot

Martin Edwards

CWA Dagger and Edgar award-winning author Martin Edwards takes readers back to The Lake District after seven years with a cunningly layered mystery that Publishers Weekly calls a "skillful combination of procedural and whodunnit."

"Life is certainly nasty, brutish, and short--least for most of the characters in Edwards's much-awaited new installment, set on the edge of England's Lake District."--First Clue

What happened to Ramona Smith?

In the The Girl They All Forgot (The Crooked Shore), history always repeats itself. After a father and son commit suicide on the same day, twenty years apart, DCI Hannah Scarlet, and her Cold Cases Division reopen the investigation of Ramona Smith, a woman who disappeared twenty-one years ago. Desperate to finally find answers, Hannah and her team chase leads as meandering as the shoreline. As the body count rises, the Cold Cases Division must unravel the lives of those on The Crooked Shore before another murder plot unfolds.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
  • Publish Date: Jun 7th, 2022
  • Pages: 352
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 1.00in - 0.97lb
  • EAN: 9781464215520
  • Categories: Mystery & Detective - Police ProceduralCrimeSmall Town & Rural

About the Author

Edwards, Martin: -

Martin Edwards has been described by Richard Osman as 'a true master of British crime writing.' His novels include the eight Lake District Mysteries and four books featuring Rachel Savernake, including the Dagger-nominated The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge. He is also the author of two multi-award-winning histories of crime fiction, The Life of Crime and The Golden Age of Murder. He has received three Daggers, including the CWA Diamond Dagger (the highest honour in UK crime writing) and two Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America. He has received four lifetime achievement awards: for his fiction, short fiction, non-fiction, and scholarship. He is consultant to the British Library's Crime Classics and since 2015 has been President of the Detection Club.

Praise for this book

"Edwards deftly weaves the multiple plots into a cohesive, quirky story with a smart heroine, fascinating insights into Lake District history, and a stunning conclusion." -- Booklist
"There's intrigue...Edwards juggles all the subplots with a master's hand and even produces a pair of utterly surprising candidates for the title role. Welcome back, Cold Case Review Team. Please don't wait seven years for the next update." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Edwards makes engagement easy through crisp prose and thoughtful characterizations. This skillful combination of procedural and whodunit will prompt newcomers to seek out earlier series entries." -- Publishers Weekly
"[R]eaders who appreciate an atmospheric story with a strong sense of place will be satisfied." -- Library Journal
"Martin Edwards is the modern grand master of English mystery writing. His literary command of character development and setting is on full display in the gripping plot of The Girl They All Forgot, as it races toward a conclusion you'll never see coming." -- Jeffrey Siger, author of the Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis series
"Life is certainly nasty, brutish, and short--at least for most of the characters in Edwards's much-awaited new installment, set on the edge of England's Lake District. DVI Hannah Scarlett is in charge of cold cases...[and as she] digs deeper into the evidence of the past, and confronts the present, readers have the pleasure of seeing such a complex narrative effortlessly resolve itself. For readers of Ann Cleeves, Mark Billingham, and Clare Donoghue." -- First Clue
"The Girl They All Forgot, Martin Edwards's eighth Lake District Mystery, seethes with a foreboding of violence, even as it looks back at a long-buried cold case of murder. The Crooked Shore, accursed scene of the crime, looms ever-present with malicious intent. Magnificently creepy estate agents, stop-at-nothing gigolos, and lustful widows with bags of cash make this a tense and irresistibly gripping read. It will suck you in like the Crooked Shore's murderous quicksand. No use struggling against it. You'll lose. Brilliant." -- James W. Ziskin, author of the award-winning Ellie Stone Mysteries