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''Gripping'' Mail on Sunday on Fear of Falling

''Cath Staincliffe gets into the heads of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary'' Ann Cleeves on Fear of Falling

A dead baby. A missing mother. A cradle of secrets.

From the author of the Scott and Bailey series, Quiet Acts of Violence is a novel about family and betrayal, injustice and poverty, the ties that bind and those that break us.

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Has the woman killed her child? Is she at risk to herself? Someone in the neighbourhood of old terraced streets has the answers. But detectives Donna Bell and Jade Bradshaw find lies and obstruction at every turn, in a community living on the edge, ground down by austerity and no hope. A place of broken dreams. Of desperation. And murder.

When a stranger crashes into Jade''s life, her past comes hurtling back, threatening to destroy her and the world she has c

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/07/2020
      ISBN13: 9781472132116, 978-1472132116
      ISBN10: 1472132114

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Gripping'' Mail on Sunday on Fear of Falling

      ''Cath Staincliffe gets into the heads of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary'' Ann Cleeves on Fear of Falling

      A dead baby. A missing mother. A cradle of secrets.

      From the author of the Scott and Bailey series, Quiet Acts of Violence is a novel about family and betrayal, injustice and poverty, the ties that bind and those that break us.

      __________

      Has the woman killed her child? Is she at risk to herself? Someone in the neighbourhood of old terraced streets has the answers. But detectives Donna Bell and Jade Bradshaw find lies and obstruction at every turn, in a community living on the edge, ground down by austerity and no hope. A place of broken dreams. Of desperation. And murder.

      When a stranger crashes into Jade''s life, her past comes hurtling back, threatening to destroy her and the world she has c

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