Bøker av Deborah Rogers

A dead girl. A town full of secrets. Someone knows what happened, but they're not telling... When Lucy Turner, the beloved fourteen-year-old daughter of the Mayor of Clutha County, is found dead at an abandoned lumber mill, it's up to Deputy District Attorney, Amelia Kellaway, and lead homicide detective, Peter O'Leary, to find out what happened. The circumstances of Lucy's death are puzzling to say the least. Why was Lucy all the way out at the old mill site in the middle of the night? Was she running away from something at home? Or did someone lure her out there with the intention of doing her harm? As Amelia and O'Leary dig deeper, it becomes apparent that in this small town, where everyone seems to be operating under their own agendas, the answers aren't going to be easy to come by. What is clear, though, is that Mayor Roy Turner, a mayor with a history of being embroiled in corruption scandals, has not really changed his ways. Could Lucy's death be connected to his dubious business practices somehow? Maybe it's payback for a deal gone wrong? Or should Amelia and O'Leary be looking closer to home?

It's 1987. Madonna is top of the charts. 'The Lost Boys' opens in cinemas. Fingerless gloves are in. It's also the year that I ran away from home and was sent to live with my expat father and Chinese stepmother in Hong Kong. It's the year everything changed, including me. In the spirit of 'Riding in Cars with Boys', Deborah Rogers gives this remarkable account of a girl on the cusp of womanhood and a father losing himself in a downward spiral of alcoholism. It's a story about a father and daughter struggling to connect, and about finding love and kindness in unexpected places.

This book brings together, for the first time, almost one hundred documents on her work, including contemporary reviews, letters, diary entries, the most important critical assessments, and several new pieces. The chapters that follow consist of chronologically arranged critical analyses of particular works by Radcliffe.

Arguably the most popular novelist of her day and the mother of the female Gothic literary tradition, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) has received varying amounts of critical attention and is now being recognized for her important contribution to English literature.