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Jeff HardingRuntime
9hr 40m
Hallowe’en, Fiction, Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense, Horror & ghost stories
The desperate search for his missing daughter will take a father to hell and back...
The unsettling, unique and utterly compelling new novel from bestselling author of LOST GIRLS. Unabridged edition.Professor David Ullman is among the world's leading authorities on demonic literature. Not that he's a believer. He sees what he teaches as a branch of the imagination and nothing more. So when offered a luxury trip to Venice to consult on a 'phenomenon', he accepts, taking his 11-year-old daughter Tess with him.
Amidst the decadent splendour of the city, David makes his way to the address he's been asked to visit. What he witnesses in the tiny attic room shakes him to the core: a man restrained in a chair, clearly insane. But what David hears the man say is worse. The voice of his father, dead for 30 years, repeating the last words he ever spoke to his son. Words that have left scars - and a mystery - behind.
Terrified, David is determined to leave with Tess as quickly as possible. But he can't shake the feeling that something is following him. And then, before his eyes on the roof of their hotel, Tess disappears. But before she falls into the Grand Canal's waters, she utters a plea: Find me.
At once frightening and deeply moving, Andrew Pyper's page-turning thriller explores the lengths a father will go to find his daughter, and the darkness he is prepared to confront along the way.
Read by Jeff Harding. A native of New England, Jeff Harding has appeared in television productions as varied as HOWARD'S END, THE FAST SHOW, FATHER TED and NCS MANHUNT. He has recorded many audiobooks, including Orion's THE LAST TEMPLAR, ROBERT LUDLUM'S BOURNE TROLOGY and the best-selling Dan Brown's THE DA VINCI CODE.
(p) 2013 Orion Publishing Group
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Praise for The Demonologist
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THE DEMONOLOGIST is that rare thing - a novel that is both genuinely terrifying and erudite. The research is excellent and lightly worn, the pace and cleverness of the plot thrilling, one of the most exciting works of fiction I've read for some time
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Genuinely terrifying, don't-read-late-at-night stuff. Thrilling, compelling and beautifully written
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THE DEMONOLOGIST is a smart psychological thriller. Carefully crafted, claustrophobic and deeply, deeply creepy
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This is a dark, brooding, compelling story about the loss if innocence and the ubiquity of evil, with a finale as bittersweet as your 50th birthday party - THE TIMES
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Pyper is the most striking Canadian crime writer to emerge in recent years and this is a characteristically intelligent move into Stephen King territory - MAIL ON SUNDAY
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Ambitious... a compelling and creepy read - GUARDIAN
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It is a perfect haunted-house story, a crisp, eerie October night of a book that had me in its clutches from page one. It still has - Joanne Harris
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A thrilling horror story that keeps you turning page after page in an urgent need to find out what happens next. You won't be disappointed - SFX
Andrew Pyper
Andrew Pyper was born in Stratford, Ontario. He received a BA and an MA in English Literature from McGill University in Montreal, as well as a law degree from the University of Toronto. Although called to the bar in 1996, he has never practised law.
Andrew is the author of a string of bestselling novels, including LOST GIRLS, which won the Arthur Ellis Award, and THE DEMONOLOGIST, which won the 2014 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Hardcover Novel.
Find out more at www.andrewpyper.com or follow him on Twitter @andrewpyper
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