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020			_a9781439149454
082	1		_aMYS BAU _2
100	1		_aBauer, Belinda
245	1	0	_aBlacklands _c/ Belinda Bauer
260			_aNew York _b: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks _c, c2010
300			_a221 p. _c; 22 cm
520			_aEighteen years ago, Billy Peters disappeared. Everyone in town believes Billy was murdered -- after all, serial killer Arnold Avery later admitted killing six other children and burying them on the same desolate moor that surrounds their small English village. Only Billy's mother is convinced he is alive. She still stands lonely guard at the front window of her home, waiting for her son to return, while her remaining family fragments around her. But her twelve-year-old grandson Steven is determined to heal the cracks that gape between his nan, his mother, his brother, and himself. Steven desperately wants to bring his family closure, and if that means personally finding his uncle's corpse, he'll do it. Spending his spare time digging holes all over the moor in the hope of turning up a body is a long shot, but at least it gives his life purpose. Then at school, when the lesson turns to letter writing, Steven has a flash of inspiration...Careful to hide his identity, he secretly pens a letter to Avery in jail asking for help in finding the body of "W.P." -- William "Billy" Peters. So begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game. Just as Steven tries to use Avery to pinpoint the gravesite, so Avery misdirects and teases his mysterious correspondent in order to relive his heinous crimes. And when Avery finally realizes that the letters he's receiving are from a twelve-year-old boy, suddenly his life has purpose too. Although his is far more dangerous...Blacklands is a taut and chillingly brilliant debut that signals the arrival of a bright new voice in psychological suspense.
546			_aEnglish
586			_aWinner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for Crime ovel of the Year.
650		4	_aBoys _z-England _v--Fiction
650		4	_aMissing persons _v--Fiction
650		4	_aMurder _x-Investigation _x-Fiction
650		4	_aSerial murderers _v--Fiction
651		4	_aExmoor (England) _x-Fiction
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