The First Cut

Peter Robinson

Original title: Caedmon's song

first published 1992 Librairie général française, 2005 381 pages

Livre de poche -- 37066

On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, is strolling home through a silent moonlit park when she is viciously attacked.When she awakes in the hospital, she has no recollection of that brutal night. But then slowly, painfully, details reveal themselves -- dreams of two figures, one white and one black, hovering over her; snatches of a strange and haunting song; the unfamiliar texture of a rough and...

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Qui sème la violence-- edition · 2005 · Librairie général française · 381 pages
The first cut edition · 2004 · Perennial Dark Alley · 310 pages
The First Cut ebook · 2004 · HarperCollins · 9780060788810
Caedmon's song edition · 1992 · Magna · 420 pages

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