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"The narrator of the story is determined to uncover the identity of the person who murdered her next door neighbour even though it makes her dangerously unpopular in the street."@en
"A 20-year-old murder, committed during a climate of intolerance, is at the center of this superb psychological novel. When "Mad Annie" Butts, a black woman afflicted with Tourette's syndrome, dies in the street in front of her London home, police call it an accident. But M. Ranelagh, the young teacher who finds her dying neighbor and tells the story, believes otherwise. And Ranelagh's obsessive quest for justice or, as some believe, revenge leads her to pursue the case for years while living abroad, before personally investigating and confronting her former neighbors."@en
"Twenty years after stumbling upon a black woman--an unpopular recluse known as "Mad Annie"--Dying in the gutter, Mrs. Ranelagh continues to believe that the woman had been murdered and tries to uncover the truth."@en
"Acid row: "Is the name of the beleaguered inhabitants give to the place they live. A no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children where angry, alienated teenagers control the streets. Into this battleground comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. Little does she know that she's entering the home of a known paedophile. And with reports circulating that a tormented child called Amy has disappeared, the viglantes are out in force." -- Back cover."
""[Mrs.] Ranelagh is convinced one of her neighbors on Garden Street is guilty of murder. Was it racism or greed that drove one of them to leave poor Mad Annie Butts for dead in the gutter? Her compulsion to solve this case is so magnetic that you are there with her every step of the way."--Sheri Kraft, Alibi Books, Glenview, Ill. Two very different women are united in the moment that one dies, leading the other to spend twenty painstaking years trying to uncover the truth about what she believes was a murder, in this new novel from Edgar Award-winning, bestselling author Minette Walters. In just seven years, Minette Walters has burst from the ranks of mystery writers to become a bestselling author the world over and today's preeminent practitioner of psychological suspense. With constant comparisons to P.D. James and Ruth Rendell and a growing American audience, Walters is poised for breakout success with The Shape of Snakes, her finest, and most finely wrought, novel yet. November 1978. The winter of discontent. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, garbage piles in the streets-and somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-filled gutter. Known as "Mad Annie," she was despised by her neighbors. Her passing would have gone unmourned and unnoticed but for the young woman who finds her and who believes-apparently against reason-that Annie was murdered. But whatever the truth about Annie-whether she was as mad as her neighbors claimed, whether she lived in squalor as the police said, whether she cruelly mistreated the cats found starving in her house-something passed between her and Mrs. Ranelagh in the moment of death that binds this one woman to her cause for the next twenty years. But why is Mrs. Ranelagh so convinced it was murder, when, by her own account, Annie died without speaking? Why does the subject make her husband so angry that he refuses to talk about what happened that night? And why would any woman spend twenty painstaking years uncovering the truth-unless her reasons are personal?"@en
""[Mrs.] Ranelagh is convinced one of her neighbors on Garden Street is guilty of murder. Was it racism or greed that drove one of them to leave poor Mad Annie Butts for dead in the gutter? Her compulsion to solve this case is so magnetic that you are there with her every step of the way."--Sheri Kraft, Alibi Books, Glenview, Ill. Two very different women are united in the moment that one dies, leading the other to spend twenty painstaking years trying to uncover the truth about what she believes was a murder, in this new novel from Edgar Award-winning, bestselling author Minette Walters. In just seven years, Minette Walters has burst from the ranks of mystery writers to become a bestselling author the world over and today's preeminent practitioner of psychological suspense. With constant comparisons to P.D. James and Ruth Rendell and a growing American audience, Walters is poised for breakout success with The Shape of Snakes, her finest, and most finely wrought, novel yet. November 1978. The winter of discontent. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, garbage piles in the streets-and somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-filled gutter. Known as "Mad Annie," she was despised by her neighbors. Her passing would have gone unmourned and unnoticed but for the young woman who finds her and who believes-apparently against reason-that Annie was murdered. But whatever the truth about Annie-whether she was as mad as her neighbors claimed, whether she lived in squalor as the police said, whether she cruelly mistreated the cats found starving in her house-something passed between her and Mrs. Ranelagh in the moment of death that binds this one woman to her cause for the next twenty years. But why is Mrs. Ranelagh so convinced it was murder, when, by her own account, Annie died without speaking? Why does the subject make her husband so angry that he refuses to talk about what happened that night? And why would any woman spend twenty painstaking years uncovering the truth-unless her reasons are personal?"
"The shape of snakes: "November 1978. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles in the streets - and in West London a black woman known as Mad Annie dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Her passing would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds her and who believes - apparently against reason - that she was murdered. For something passed between Annie and Mrs Ranelagh at the moment of death." -- Back cover."
"Een vrouw probeert de waarheid over de dood van een alleenstaande zwarte vrouw, twintig jaar eerder, te achterhalen."

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"Powieść angielska"
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Fiction"@he
"Large type books"@en
"Psychological fiction"
"Psychological fiction"@en
"Detective and mystery stories"@en
"Suspense fiction"
"Mystery fiction"@en
"Mystery fiction"
"Electronic books"@en

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"Tsuratam shel neḥashim"
"Slangens mønster : kriminalroman"@da
"A sombra da serpente"
"The Shape of snakes"
"Il corpo del nemico : romanzo"@it
"Il corpo del nemico : romanzo"
"Schlangenlinien Roman"
"Schlangenlinien : Roman"
"Un serpent dans l'ombre : roman"
"The Shape of Snakes"@en
"The Shape of Snakes"
"Schlangenlinien"
"צורתם של נחשים"
"Il corpo del nemico : Romanzo"
"Schlangenlinein : Roman"
"蛇之形 = The shape of snakes"
"She zhi xing = The Shape of snakes"
"De vorm van slangen"
"She zhi xing"
"She zhi xing = The shape of snakes"
"The shape of snakes & acid row"
"Un serpent dans l'ombre"
"Shape of snakes"
"Ormars skepnad : [kriminalroman]"@sv
"Podoba kače"@sl
"The shape of snakes"
"The shape of snakes"@en
"Ormars skepnad"
"Ormars skepnad"@sv
"Schlangenlinien Krimi, Lesung"
"蛇之形"
"Slangemønster"
"Schlangenlinien : Roman = The shape of snakes"
"La Forma de la serpiente"
"Schlangenlinien Krimi ; Lesung"
"The shape of snakes [audio book]"
"La forma de la serpiente"
"La forma de la serpiente"@es

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