Also published as: Rupture

Author: Simon Lelic Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Fiction, Award winners, Crime, Thriller, Contemporary Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780143118619 0670021504 0143118617

A stunning debut novel that unravels the hidden story behind a school shooting It should be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walked into a school assembly with a gun and murdered three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himself. It was a tragedy that could not have been predicted. Szajkowski, it seems clear, was a psychopath beyond help. Yet as Detective Inspector Lucia May- the only woman in her high-testosterone office in the Criminal Investigations Department-begins to piece together the testimonies of the various witnesses, an uglier and more complex picture emerges, calling into question the innocence of others. But no one, including Lucia's boss, is interested. As the pressure to close the case builds and her colleagues' sexism takes a sinister turn, Lucia begins to realize that she has more in common with the killer than she could have imagined, and she becomes deter­mined to expose the truth. Brilliantly interweaving the witnesses' accounts with Lucia's own perspective, A Thousand Cuts is a narrative tour de force from a formidable new voice in fiction. Similar books: The New Neighbors by Simon Lelic Still Waters by Viveca Sten Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd The Garden of Burning Sand by Corban Addison Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Trespassing by Brandi Reeds Little Boy Lost by J. D. Trafford Safe House by Chris Ewan Guilty Wives by James Patterson Friend Request by Laura Marshall Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing After Anna by Alex Lake Run Away by Harlan Coben The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn The Night Olivia Fell by Christina McDonald