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Holding : a novel / Graham Norton.
Van Pelt Library PR6114.O785 H65 2017
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Mystery Norton Holding
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Norton, Graham, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--Ireland--Fiction.
- Police.
- Ireland.
- Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
- Murder.
- Murder--Investigation.
- Missing persons--Fiction.
- Missing persons.
- Secrecy--Fiction.
- Secrecy.
- Villages--Fiction.
- Villages.
- Cork (Ireland : County)--Fiction.
- Cork (Ireland : County).
- Ireland--Cork (County).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Atria books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atria Books, 2017.
- Summary:
- "From Graham Norton, the BAFTA-award-winning Irish television host and author of the "sparkling and impish" (Daily Mail) memoirs The Life and Loves of a He Devil and So Me, comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime. The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama but when human remains are discovered on an old farm, suspected to be that of Tommy Burke--a former lover of two different inhabitants--the village's dark past begins to unravel. As the frustrated sergeant PJ Collins struggles to solve a genuine case for the first time in his life, he unearths a community's worth of anger and resentments, secrets and regret. In this darkly comic, touching, and at times heartbreaking novel, perfect for fans of J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy, Graham Norton employs his acerbic wit to breathe life into a host of lovable characters, and explore--with searing honesty--the complexities and contradictions that make us human"-- Provided by publisher.
- "From Graham Norton, the BAFTA-award-winning Irish television host and author of the "sparkling and impish" (Daily Mail) memoirs The Life and Loves of a He Devil and So Me, comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime. The remote Irish village of Duneen has known little drama but when human remains are discovered on an old farm, suspected to be that of Tommy Burke--a former lover oftwo different inhabitants--the village's dark past begins to unravel. As the frustrated sergeant PJ Collins struggles to solve a genuine case for the first time in his life, he unearths a community's worth of anger and resentments, secrets and regret. In this darkly comic, touching, and at times heartbreaking novel, perfect for fans of J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy, Graham Norton employs his acerbic wit to breathe life into a host of loveable characters, and explore--with searing honesty--the complexities and contradictions that make us human"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by Hodder & Stoughton."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Norton, Graham, 1963- Holding.
- ISBN:
- 9781501173264
- 150117326X
- 9781501173271
- 1501173278
- OCLC:
- 973370389
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