Versteckt (Hide And Seek) (Germany)
German edition of Hide And Seek translated by Kristof Kurz.
Now I’m way beyond confusion.
Now I’m scared.
I’ve slid down the rabbit-hole and what’s down there is dark and serious. This is not play-acting or some waking bad dream she’s having. She’s changed, somehow overnight. I don’t know how I know this but I sense it as surely as I sense my own skin. This is not Sam, my Sam, wholly sane and firmly balanced. Capable of tying off an artery as neatly as you’d thread a belt through the loops of your jeans.
And now I’m shivering too.
In some fundamental way she’s changed…
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Polish edition of Red, translated by Bartosz Czartoryski. Also features Right to Life, translated as Prawo Do Życia.
Polish edition of The Woman, translated by Mateusz Kopacz. Also features the short story, Cow, translated as Reproduktor.
Polish edition of Offspring, translated by Bartosz Czartoryski.
Polish edition of Peaceable Kingdom, translated by Piotr Pocztarek.
The Woman is the powerful story of the last survivor of a feral tribe of cannibals who have terrorized the east coast of Maine into Canada for years now. Badly wounded in a battle with police, she takes refuge in a cave overlooking the sea.
Christopher Cleek is a slick, amoral -and unstable- country lawyer who, out hunting one day, sees her bathing in a stream. Fascinated, he follows her to her cave.
Cleek has many dark secrets and to these he’ll add another. He will capture her, lock her in his fruit cellar, and tame her, civilize her. To this end, he’ll enlist his long-suffering wife Belle, his teenage son and daughter Brian and Peg, and even his little girl Darlin’, to aid him.
So the question becomes, who is more savage?
The hunter or the game?
Also contains the short story, Cow
Czech edition of Off Season, translated by Milan Žáček.
Polish edition of Only Child/Stranglehold, translated by Bartosz Czartoryski.
German edition of The Woman translated by Marcel Häußler.
German Bell Krimi edition of Stranglehold/Only Child, translated by Ralf Schmitz.
The Woman is the last of her kind, the lone survivor of a tribe of feral cannibals who have terrorized the Maine coast for years. She is wounded and weak, be she’s found refuge in a cave overlooking the sea. Christopher Cleek is an amoral – and unstable – lawyer who sees her bathing in a stream one day while he’s out hunting. He follows her to her cave. Cleek has dark, cruel secrets and he will now add one more. He will capture the Woman, lock her in his cellar, and attempt to tame her, with the help of his wife and children. But very soon the question will become: Who is more savage, the hunter or the prey?
Also contains the short story, Cow