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THE HOBBY

THE HOBBY
Genre:

Fiction, Literary & General

Author:

Lisa St Aubin de Terán

Publisher:

The Hobby

Language:

English

AUTHOR BIO:

Lisa St Aubin de Terán, an award-winning Anglo-Guyanese author, has written 20 books spanning fiction and non-fiction. Born and raised in London, she married a Venezuelan exile at 16 and spent seven years managing his sugar plantation in the Andes—an experience that shaped much of her work. Named a Best of British Young Novelist in 1982 for Keepers of the House, she later spent two decades as a nomadic writer. In 2004, she settled in Mozambique, founding the Terán Foundation for community touris...

Pages:

384

Publication:

2024

Rights available:

Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Swedish

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DESCRIPTION:

When police pay a visit to an elderly peeping tom, they unexpectedly stumble upon a loose thread that leads detective John Custer into a murky world of sex crimes and serial killings, of hidden graves and socially impeccable paedophiles. Ignoring the scepticism of his colleagues and superiors, Custer doggedly follows his intuition that there really is something very wrong that needs to be discovered, however cold the trail seems to have become.

Inspired by some of the many paedophile conspiracies that have been uncovered in recent years, and the cases of abused children, The Hobby is a psychological crime thriller, ranging from the fan club of a 1940s child star, through Istanbul and war-torn Burma and Cairo, to 1980s Britain. Custer and his assistant, Sergeant Jolly Campbell, seek to bring justice to the forgotten victims, while themselves going through their own quest for personal redemption.

REVIEWS:

“Sparked by real case histories of abused children, and endlessly surprising, The Hobby will have fans of character-driven crime fiction on the edge of their seats.” _ Joanne Owen, lovereading.co.uk

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