The Four Last Things: The Roth Trilogy Book 1
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (828 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00AXPJOMW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 357 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Each turns initially away from the other and towards the source of their faith: for Lucy, it is the church, and for Michael, the police. The Reverend Sally Applegate, a newly ordained deacon in a London parish, and her husband, Michael, a policeman, have already been experiencing hard times in their marriage for some time as The Four Last Things opens. . When their daughter, Lucy, is kidnapped they grow even farther apart. As a series of grisly discoveries of body parts seems to indicate that Lucy is in imminent danger of becoming the next victim, Sally and Michael's faith in themselves, each other, and the institutions that have nurtured them is tested to the breaking point. Meanwhile the kidnappers, a pedophile named Eddie and a female serial killer named Angel, find themselves unexpectedly touched by the little girl t
The first novel in Andrew Taylor’s ground-breaking Roth trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed drama Fallen Angel. More such finds are to follow, all at religious sites, and, in a city haunted by religion, what do these offerings signify?All that stands now between Lucy and the final sacrifice are a CID sergeant on the verge of disgrace and a woman cleric – Lucy’s parents – but how can they hope to halt the evil forces that are gathering around their innocent daughter?. A tense psychological thriller for fans of S J Watson.Little Lucy Appleyard is snatched from her child minder’s on a cold winter afternoon, and the nightmare begins. When Eddie takes her home to beautiful, child-loving Angel, he knows he’s done the right thing. But Lucy’s not like their other visitors, and unwittingly she strikes through Angel’s defences to something both vulnerable and volatile at the core.To the outside world Lucy has disappeared into a black hole with no clues to her whereabouts…until the first grisly discovery in a London graveyard
High quality, philosophical crime fiction. I have read severel of Andrew Taylors books recently and I'm fan! I started out because he has written some history crimes that are well written.His books have a litterary quality that I appriciate in crime fiction. They are slow paced which gives room for developing characters and in Taylors books no character is one diminsional.The Roth-trilogy is my first meeting with contemporary novels from Taylor. As the historic ones it qualifies by having more dimensions than just plain suspence. There is still a character-time-milieu relation, that drives the action and suspence. I've gone on from Four Last Things to "Judgement. Kate said Fantastic read. Fantastic novel really enjoyed it, have now read book "Fantastic read" according to Kate. Fantastic novel really enjoyed it, have now read book 2 ties it all together nicely, both books can be read as a stand alone novel but I would recommend reading in order. Now looking forward to book Fantastic read Fantastic novel really enjoyed it, have now read book 2 ties it all together nicely, both books can be read as a stand alone novel but I would recommend reading in order. Now looking forward to book 3.. .. ties it all together nicely, both books can be read as a stand alone novel but I would recommend reading in order. Now looking forward to book Fantastic read Fantastic novel really enjoyed it, have now read book 2 ties it all together nicely, both books can be read as a stand alone novel but I would recommend reading in order. Now looking forward to book 3.. .. "Theological Twists !" according to KatieSparkle. The theology aspect kept me interested - it was creepy and well done. I will read the next 2 books as well !