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The Sculptress: A Novel Paperback – October 2, 2007

by Minette Walters (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
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Winner of the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award for Best Novel

In prison they call her the sculptress: a grotesquely obese young woman convicted of cutting her mother and sister to pieces and rearranging their bodies on the floor like a jigsaw puzzle. She pleaded guilty to the crime, but no one has noticed that the facts don't add up until Rosalind Leigh comes to visit the prisoner, hoping to get a book deal out of her story. The more fevered Rosalind's pursuit of the truth, the closer she gets to the true source of the evil ascribed to the Sculptress in her cell.
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  1. Print length
    320 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Picador
  4. Publication date
    October 2, 2007
  5. Dimensions
    5.74 x 0.86 x 7.79 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0312427549
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0312427542
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"A dark, superbly plotted tale guaranteed to keep readers up most of the night."--The Denver Post

"Creepy but compulsive . . . hard to put down."--The New York Times Book Review "Riveting."--The Kansas City Star "A shocker of a second novel."--Detroit Free Press "Intricate, intriguing, and tantalizingly ambiguous . . . Ratifies [Minette Walters's emergence into the front ranks of today's mystery writers."--The San Diego Union-Tribune

About the Author

Minette Walters is the author of fourteen suspense novels and the winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the CWA John Creasey/New Blood Dagger Award, among others. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. She lives with her husband in Dorset, England.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador; First Edition (October 2, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0312427549
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312427542
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.74 x 0.86 x 7.79 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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Lillian Stanton
5.0 out of 5 stars Minette Walters succeeds again
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2013
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I like her psychological thrillers. She never uses the same characters. Here writing seems effortless. Good mystery without the gore and salacious details
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lindaluane
5.0 out of 5 stars Who is Olive?
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2020
I really enjoyed this one!
It is about a female author, Rosalind Leigh (Roz) - who is going through rough times - emotionally. And her agent calls and gives her an assignment to write about..,..Olive Martin - a lady who is in prison for butchering her mother and sister - literally cuts them up into pieces.
Roz visits Olive in prison - and becomes fascinated with the story - and begins her own investigation into what happened. In the process, she meets, Hal, who was the detective on the case - but has left the police force to start a restaurant- and seems to be having his own issues
Roz has many questions about Olive - the main one is Why did she confess so quickly?
This takes place in 1990's England
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Jeanne E. Legault
5.0 out of 5 stars I am an avid mystery reader - and this was one of the best books I've ever read!
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2021
Do not pass up this book - absolutely phenomenal writing and story line!
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matthew
3.0 out of 5 stars rather tatty copy, not what i would describe as ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 4, 2015
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rather tatty copy, not what i would describe as very goood copy as description states. there is also a torn page in book.
was delievred very quick.
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