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The Sculptor is the second novel by Minette Walters, one of Britain's most popular and best-selling crime writers. This dark, suspenseful and unusual novel won the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel.
“I saw the photos… It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific sight I have ever seen. Olive Martin is a dangerous woman. I advise you to be extremely careful.”
Apart from these words, Rosalind Leigh had no idea what awaited her inside the prison walls. She was a journalist and knew everything about the case. She knew how Olive Martin had dismembered the bodies of her mother and younger sister five years earlier, that she had confessed to both murders, and why they called her the Sculptor.
Olive pleads guilty, but Roz is convinced she is hiding something—perhaps even her innocence. If Olive did not commit the murders, then who is she protecting, and why? Roz’s determination to uncover the truth grows into a veritable obsession. And when she falls in love with Hal Hawksley, the police officer who arrested Olive, her confusion grows…
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