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Woman of the Dead
Translated from the original German by Anthea Bell
ABOUT
THE BOOK
How far would you go to avenge the one you love?
Blum has a secret buried deep in her past. She thought she’d left the past behind. But then Mark, the man she loves, dies.
His death looks like a hit-and-run. It isn’t a hit-and-run. Mark has been killed by the men he was investigating.
And then, suddenly, Blum rediscovers what she’s capable of…
The unstoppable German thriller which is sweeping the globe: Woman of the Dead is the hugely compelling novel about a woman who seeks revenge and gets it.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Anthea
Bell
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Date published
09/04/2015
Country
Austria
Original Language
German
Publisher
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Translator
Anthea Bell
Translation
Translated from the original German by Anthea Bell
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