- Title:
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A Morbid Habit
- Series:
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Catherine Berlin #3
- Written by:
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Annie Hauxwell
- Read by:
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Caroline Lennon
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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9 hours 12 minutes
- Published:
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November 01 2014
- Available Date:
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November 01 2014
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486244058
- Genres:
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Fiction; Crime & Thriller
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
'Annie Hauxwell has given us a heroine for our bleak new age ... Berlin is both tough and fragile but far from stereotypical.'
The Times
The third gripping instalment in Annie Hauxwell's phenomenal Catherine Berlin crime series.
The hands were warm. Soft fingers, but flesh inflected with iron. Squeezing. The tongue lolled and protruded from the mouth. Vertebrae fragmented, one, two, three, until finally the hands relaxed and the limp body slid from their embrace. Blood turned to ice and sealed the nostrils.
It's the week before Christmas. Catherine Berlin sits alone gazing at a bank of monitors, each capturing a slice of a vast industrial estate. A van appears: two men delivering crates, moving quickly. Her boss tells her to ignore them, but she can't. Berlin's scars have faded, but she still walks with a limp. Broke, she's working nights as a relief CCTV operator, and looking for something more substantial. Her heroin habit is under control – only just. The night shifts end, but now Berlin herself is being watched.
When an old friend offers her a job in Russia, she quickly agrees. The details are vague: an oligarch with a shady past, a UK company offering a high fee for Berlin to investigate. Easy enough. But Berlin arrives in Moscow to find that her problems are only just beginning.
A body is found at the airport: a man clutching a sign reading 'Catherine Berlin'. There are figures following her, and her guide, a Brit named Charlie, has secrets to hide.
When Berlin's oligarch goes missing, she finds that she cannot trust anyone or anything, even her past, if she is to survive.
'This is powerful and uncompromising fare from an intriguing writer.'
The Good Book Guide