Hanging Hill

Mo Hayder, internationally best-selling author of "Skin" and "Gone," has firmly established her reputation as a master of gritty, gripping page-turners. Fast-paced and addictive, her latest, "Hanging Hill," centers around a pair of estranged sisters, one a policeman, and the gruesome homicide of a teenage beauty which leads them deeper than they ever anticipated into an underground world of sex and violence. One morning in picture-perfect Bath, England, a teenage girl s body is found on the towpath of a canal. Lorne Woodbeautiful, popular, and apparently the victim of a brutal murder. Why was she on the towpath late at night alone? Zoe BenedictHarley-riding police detective, independent to a faultis convinced the department head needs to look beyond the usual domestic motives to solve the case. Meanwhile Zoe s sister Sallyrecently divorced and supporting a daughter who was friends with the dead girlhas begun working as a housekeeper for a rich entrepreneur who quickly begins to seem less eccentric than repugnant, and possibly dangerous. When Zoe s investigation uncovers evidence that Lorne s attempts to break into modeling had delivered her into the world of webcam porn, a crippling secret from Zoe s past seems determined to emerge."