Fatlands

By Sarah Dunant

A PI signs on as bodyguard to a spoiled teenager—but the simple job explodes in murder in this crime novel from a CWA Silver Dagger Award–winning author
 
Chaperoning a rebellious teenager around London isn’t how private eye Hannah Wolfe planned to spend the weekend. But a job’s a job, especially when it comes from her mentor, ex-cop Frank Comfort.
 
Mattie Shepherd is supposed to celebrate her fourteenth birthday with an extravagant shopping spree followed by an evening at the theater. When work calls her scientist father away, Hannah gets the job as stand-in parent. But things go from bad to tragic when violence intervenes.
 
Mattie’s father, Tom, heads up chemical giant Vandamed’s independent cancer research department—the biggest in the country. Vandamed is also on the Animal Liberation Front’s hit list for using animals in its experimental labs. Death threats are par for the course. Until a fatal car bomb explosion adds premeditated murder to the mix.
 
Now Hannah’s on a hunt for a killer, and her search will expose a massive corporate cover-up and rampant greed. Avenging an innocent death could cost her everything—including her lover, Nick.
 
A must-read for fans of Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, and P. D. James, Fatlands will keep you guessing right to its dramatic end.
 
Fatlands is the 2nd book in the Hannah Wolfe Crime Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Release date: Jun 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504035064

Sarah Dunant

Sarah Dunant has written eight novels, including The Birth of Venus and three Hannah Wolfe novels—Birth Marks, Fatlands, and Under My Skin. She has worked widely in print, television, and radio. Now a full-time writer, she lives in London and Florence.

Reviews for Fatlands

[librarycin · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

3.25 starsHannah Wolfe is a private investigator, but usually her jobs are pretty mundane. She is hired to “protect” a 14-year old girl, Mattie, for one day. She has been told that Mattie’s mother may try to kidnap her. Mattie’s father is a scientist who, in trying to find a cure for cancer, tests on animals. Things go very wrong, and Hannah is left to figure out how it all happened.It was all right, although if I put it down, I wasn’t really all that compelled to pick it up again real soon. I was afraid there might be parts that would be difficult for me to read, depending how much detail she went into in describing some of the animal testing, but it wasn’t as bad as I was afraid it might be.