A Thousand Cuts

A Novel

De: Simon Lelic

Narrado por: Patricia Conolly, James Clamp, John Curless, Elizabeth Jasicki, Colin McPhillamy, Charlotte Parry

It should be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walked into a school assembly with a gun and murdered three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself. It was a tragedy that could not have been predicted. Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help.

Yet as Detective Inspector Lucia May - the only woman in her high-testosterone office in the Criminal Investigations Department - begins to piece together the testimonies of the various witnesses, an uglier and more complex picture emerges, calling into question the innocence of others. But no one, including Lucia's boss, is interested.

As the pressure to close the case builds and her colleagues' sexism takes a sinister turn, Lucia begins to realize that she has more in common with the killer than she could have imagined, and she becomes deter­mined to expose the truth. Brilliantly interweaving the witnesses' accounts with Lucia's own perspective, A Thousand Cuts is a narrative tour de force from a formidable new voice in fiction.

©2010 Simon Lelic (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC

Reseñas de la Crítica

"This deeply human and moving book heralds a bright new talent." ( Publishers Weekly)

Great

I loved the acting in this book. Great and interesting story. at first the plot and story line can be confusing but amazing truly amazing.

A Thousand Cliches

What would have made A Thousand Cuts better?

Give us one believable character, or one situation that isn't a writer's cliche.

What could Simon Lelic have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

See above

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

The performance was good.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from A Thousand Cuts?

The detective character needs to be replaced with an idividual (of either gender) that the reader could accept as real.