Birthdays for the dead
"Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret ... Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front - Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him 'The Birthday Boy'. He's been snatching girls for twelve years, always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday, sending the fami…
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- Full title :Birthdays for the dead / Stuart MacBride.
Summary
"Detective Constable Ash Henderson has a dark secret ... Five years ago his daughter, Rebecca, went missing on the eve of her thirteenth birthday. A year later the first card arrived: homemade, with a Polaroid picture stuck to the front - Rebecca, strapped to a chair, gagged and terrified. Every year another card: each one worse than the last. The tabloids call him 'The Birthday Boy'. He's been snatching girls for twelve years, always in the run-up to their thirteenth birthday, sending the families his homemade cards showing their daughters being slowly tortured to death. But Ash hasn't told anyone about Rebecca's birthday cards - they all think she's just run away from home - because if anyone finds out, he'll be taken off the investigation. And he's sacrificed too much to give up before his daughter's killer gets what he deserves ..."--BorrowBox
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- Publication Date:2014.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):HarperCollins
- Place of Publication:Sydney
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014.
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780007344192, 0007344198
- oclc:ocn889908775
- Dewey Decimal:823.92
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