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The Slaughter Man
  • Published: 21 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9781448185733
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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The Slaughter Man

(DC Max Wolfe)

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18 July 2016
EBook
21 May 2015
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A murdered family. A dying serial killer. A missing child. DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London. By the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of The Murder Bag.

'This is brilliant stuff!' Peter James

A murdered family. A dying serial killer. A missing child. DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London. By the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of The Murder Bag.

On New Year's Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away.

The murder weapon - a gun for stunning cattle before they are butchered - leads Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard's Black Museum devoted to a killer who thirty years ago was known as the Slaughter Man.

But the Slaughter Man has done his time, and is now old and dying. Can he really be back in the game?

And was the murder of a happy family a mindless killing spree, a grotesque homage by a copycat killer - or a contract hit designed to frame a dying man?

All Max knows is that he needs to find the missing child and stop the killer before he destroys another innocent family - or finds his way to his own front door ...

Even the happiest of families have black, twisted secrets that someone is ready to kill for...
  • Published: 21 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9781448185733
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
Categories:

About the author

Tony Parsons

TONY PARSONS is a bestselling novelist and an award-winning journalist.
His books have been published in over forty languages and his multimillion-selling novel
Man and Boy won the Book of the Year prize in 2000.
Most recently, he created the Max Wolfe crime series.
The Murder Bag, the first Max Wolfe book, went to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list and in 2023 was voted one of the
100 best crimes books of all time by the readers of Dead Good Books.
Tony lives in London with his family.

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Praise for The Slaughter Man

Told with striking clarity and insight, this novel confirms Parsons has earned a place at the very pinnacle of British crime writing

Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail

The second entertaining instalment in the Max Wolfe series... the colourful plot races through the pages and spreads its tentacles into the dark reaches of abuse

Times

This blood thumping, heart pumping thriller confirms Tony Parsons has become one of our best crime writers. Brilliant! 10 stars

Peterborough Evening Telegraph

With its big ideas and adroit plotting, The Slaughter Man's position in the marketplace of fiction seems justly assured

Olivia Cole, GQ

Parsons had me gripped from the first chapter to the last sentence

Irish Independent

Fast paced and gripping

The Scotsman

Superbly crafted crime drama that grips from start to finish

The Sunday Post

Parsons’ novel has startling emotional power, the result of brooding poetry gliding across a propulsive narrative … A remarkable novel on multiple levels

Booklist

A taut always engaging thriller

the SUN

It’s all as addictive as your favourite boxset…it contains more twists than a contortionist caught in a tornado

Shortlist

I've long been a fan of Tony Parsons's writing, and his sharp eye for detail, and I'm really enjoying his genre move into crime fiction. This is brilliant stuff!

Peter James

I put my life on hold while I was reading because I couldn't tear myself away from the gripping story... It's complicated, brutal but Tony Parsons has managed to weave the brutality into a truly brilliant story.

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