Death Row - Mark Pearson [0]
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Death Row
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For Kim, Curt and Tami
DEATH
ROW
In addition to his novel writing, for the last decade and a half Mark Pearson has been a full time and multi-award-nominated, television scriptwriter working on some of the country’s best-loved and most popular drama series.
Praise for Mark Pearson
‘A cracking debut, matching gore with suspense.
His TV scripting experience shows’ Bookseller
‘Jack Delaney is hard to forget’ Time Out
‘Pearson scores a hit first time out with Jack
Delaney, a hard-drinking maverick that fans of John
Rebus and Jack Regan will love’ Daily Record
‘This is a cracking debut novel, the pace never flags,
the dialogue is as sharp as a cut-throat razor’
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Also available by Mark Pearson
Hard Evidence
Blood Work
‘The percentage of adults who experienced sexual abuse as children and have had long-term side effects is not known. However, in one British study, thirteen per cent of the sample of such adults reported that they had been permanently damaged.’
Counselling Directory 2009
They all say it’s a physical thing. An urge. An uncontrollable desire that builds and swells, like an ocean at high tide, until action must be taken. A slow boiling of the blood. As uncontrollable and devastatingly powerful as a tsunami. But that isn’t it: it was part of it but just that – a part. It’s a mental thing, he knew that as well as any. Thoughts scuttling and skittering in the brain like hundreds of small crabs in a tin bath, climbing the sides with