Acid Row, Minette Walters
Acid Row, Minette Walters
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Acid Row

Author: Minette Walters

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/06/2012


Synopsis

Acid Row. The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their 'sink' estate. A no-man's land of single mothers and fatherless children - where angry, alienated youth controls the streets. Into this battleground comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. Little does she know that she is entering the home of a known paedophile ...and with reports circulating that a tormented child called Amy has disappeared, the vigilantes are out in force. Soon Sophie is trapped at the centre of a terrifying siege, with a man she has come to despise. Whipped to a frenzy by unsubstantiated rumour, the mob unleashes its hatred. Against authority ...the law ...and the 'pervert'. 'Protecting Amy' becomes the catch-all defence for the terrible events that follow. And if murder is part of it, then so be it. But is Amy really missing?

About Minette Walters

Minette Walters is the author of thirteen novels—including The Shape of Snakes and The Sculptress—two novellas, and a number of short stories. Her work, which has been published in more than thirty-five countries, has received several major awards, including two Gold Daggers from the Crime Writers' Association in Great Britain and the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Dorset, England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elaine on April 03, 2015

Set in 2001 at a time when the News of the World was threatening to print names and addresses of all paedophiles in the country, trying to make us believe that we didn’t really know who our neighbours were, this is a story about mob psychology. When residents of a sink estate get word that a newcome......more

Goodreads review by Mark on December 07, 2008

Another pot boiler from my new favorite author. Ms Walters is able to manage multiple concurrent streams of narrative and keep the reader vitaly involved in each thread. In this one, a word spoken in anger at a most inappropriate time leads to an expolsion of violence directed at a pedophile that wa......more

Goodreads review by Asghar on July 11, 2016

You can read it today, especially in America, and it still be relevant.......more

Goodreads review by Siobhan on July 24, 2020

Acid Row is one of those books where I went in blind, unsure what I was going to receive. At first, I was unsure about it. It had me curious, but I wasn’t quite connecting to it. As the story progressed, however, I quickly found myself addicted. With multiple elements introduced throughout, this one......more

Goodreads review by Renita on July 30, 2023

Thrilling......more