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2000s: Think Bath is nice cosy Jane Austen country? Well it might be, but not in the hands of Mo Hayder …
Hanging Hill
What you need to know before your trail
The Victim:
A teenage girl has been brutally murdered on her way home from school. The cryptic message ‘all like her’ is crudely written on her body.
The Silence:
The dead girl’s friends are deeply shocked and upset, but they all refuse to reveal anything about her last movements. Who are they protecting? And what more do they know?
The Fear:
Headstrong Detective Inspector Zoë Benedict knows exactly how she wants to work this case. But Zoë’s own dark past, if exposed, may jeopardize the search for justice . . . and destroy her too.
Travel Guide
Bath
“The funeral was held in an Anglican church on a hill just outside that ancient spa town of Bath”
Welcome to Bath – the Mo Hayder version that is. Despite Mo having played around with some of the geography of the city’s woods, Hanging Hill and Freezing Hill, they still sound something that Mo Hayder would make up or at least name to suit her scary purposes. But nope, they’re real and Mo manages to make them as chilling as you might imagine.
A teenaged girl was murdered but the story really revolves around two sisters: Zoe, one of the detectives on the murder case and Sally whose daughter is the victim’s classmate.
Hanging Hill
This is the site of the great Landsdown battle between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians more than 400 years ago and is very close to Bath and not far from where Mo Hayder herself lives. So this is the kind of place that Mo sees in her own everyday and managed to turn it into our everyday reality of horrors. This is the home of the dubious David Goldrab – out past the racecourse and notable chiefly for the landmark of the Caterpillar ( the real Freezing Hill location) – a line of trees on the crest of a hill seen from mils around. Yet it is also a chilling place as you can imagine.
So once again an area of natural beauty and unusual landscapes but with the Mo Hayder twist it becomes one of utter depravity, lies, secrets, murder and pornography.
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