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Splinter the silence

"Is it violence if it's virtual? The outspoken women targeted by the increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would probably say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Ton...

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Main Author: McDermid, Val (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2015]
Series:McDermid, Val. Tony Hill/Carol Jordan novels ; 9.
Subjects:
Hill, Tony, Doctor (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Jordan, Carol, Detective Chief Inspector (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Clinical psychologists > Fiction.
Women > Crimes against > Fiction.
Cyberbullying > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Mystery fiction.
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Summary:"Is it violence if it's virtual? The outspoken women targeted by the increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would probably say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Tony Hill isn't convinced. But he's the only one. Former cop Carol Jordan is too busy messing up her life to care. Until she gets an unexpected second chance. Now it's game on, and the stakes have never been higher" -- provided by publisher.
Item Description:"First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Little, Brown Book Group"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:388 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9780802124081 (hardcover)
0802124089 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Val McDermid was born in Scotland on June 4, 1955. She was the first student from a state school in Scotland accepted to read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She graduated in 1975 and became a journalist. She wrote her first novel at the age of 21. It didn't get published, but she turned it into a play entitled Like a Happy Ending. It was performed by the Plymouth Theatre Company and was later adapted for BBC radio. Her first book, Report for Murder, was published in 1987. She is the author of the Lindsay Gordon Mystery series, the Kate Brannigan Mystery series, and the Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Mysteries series as well as several stand alone books including The Distant Echo, A Darker Domain, Trick of the Dark and Out of Bounds. The Mermaids Singing won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

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