The Shape of Snakes

The Shape of Snakes

Paperback (19 Feb 2008)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A psychological thriller about race, family, and the brutal power of raw emotion.Mrs. Ranelagh has never stopped thinking about the dead body she found in the gutter twenty years ago, during Britain's Winter of Discontent. "Mad Annie," as she was known, was the only black resident of her West London neighborhood and openly despised by the community. The police called her death an accident, but Mrs. Ranelagh has always suspected it was murder. However, her pleas for an investigation were met with a vicious hate campaign that drove her and her husband from the country. Now, determined to uncover the truth, Mrs. Ranelagh has returned to England, where she quickly discovers a sordid trail of domestic violence, racism and adultery that shockingly could lead back to her own family.

Book information

ISBN: 9780307277114
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 349g
Height: 203mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 20mm