Böcker av Jackie Bateman

Winner, Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University's First Book CompetitionNondescript Rambunctious is a genre-busting thriller with a beating, human heart. More than a simple story of a killer and his victims, the novel takes the reader into the life of a family, the days of a community, and the very real possibility that evil is everywhere-maybe even inside us. Woven through this dark tapestry are the glittering threads of humanity, humour, and in the form of one young woman, the promise of redemption.Like a sinister dream, Nondescript Rambunctious pulls you in and doesn't let go. There is no easy way out.Praise for Nondescript Rambunctious:"e;Jackie Bateman's debut novel is very impressive. The writing is taut, controlled, and relentless. Nondescript Rambunctious is a dark, murderous thriller, a winner with a variety of narrators, surprising turns and shifts, and some hard, hard corners."e; (Mark Anthony Jarman, author of My White Planet and 19 Knives)"e; Nondescript Rambunctious, for which Jackie Bateman won the Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University's First Book Competition in the fiction category, is a thriller that succeeds by nodding politely to the formula, then turning it on its head. The novel has four narrators, but Bateman weaves their voices together effortlessly, and the build-up retains all the suspense and intensity one expects from a crime thriller. Bateman hasn't imagined a world of dogged cops, rumpled detectives, or amateur sleuths. Nondescript Rambunctious is about the heartbreaking consequences of human depravity, not tying up loose ends or piecing together clues. It wouldn't be wrong to label this novel a thriller, but it also confounds the expectations of that label, to great effect."e; (Quill & Quire)"e;Vancouver's Jackie Bateman draws on her Scottish roots for a bewitching first novel that transforms from gentle domestic comedy into gripping suspense. it's a real page-turner, and Bateman takes it to a surprising and satisfying conclusion."e; (Prairie Fire)

TWO ABANDONED REBELS. ONE EXPLOSIVE CONNECTION. When Robbie faces his community after years of hiding in the shadows, he's branded a monster. His condition means that his body is freakishly muscular, a bodybuilder gone wrong, where every shifting tendon pulsates. He wants to find Nurse Nola, the one who understood him when doctors performed the endless research that stripped away his childhood. Instead, he finds streetwise Kat who wants to find Nola for different reasons. When Kat sticks up for Robbie in the face of her gang's cruel digs, their friendship begins. But when Robbie uses his muscle to rescue her from a violent incident, his blind rage is exposed, and he has the daunting task of earning back her trust. This is the story of improbable love, where the universe unites two fragments of the past to create an extraordinary bond.

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