Ebook {Epub PDF} Rose by Martin Cruz Smith

Praise for Martin Cruz Smith 'The story drips with atmosphere and authenticity – a literary triumph' David Young, bestselling author of Stasi Child 'One of those writers that anyone who is serious about their craft views with respect bordering on awe' Val McDermid ‘Cleverly 4/5(4).  · Smith (Red Square, , etc.) not only sets his exuberant, sly new novel in Victorian England but goes Victorian novelists one better, conjuring up a plot device at the heart of this mystery that Dickens would envy. Set in the town of Wigan, in Lancashire, this latest from Smith doesn't simply evoke the past, it plunges us into the gritty reality of a midth-century community dominated by. And when he falls in love with Rose, a beautiful 'pit girl', things start to turn deadly. In a place where life is brutish, short and covered in coal dust, Blair must solve a mystery that will force him to confront his own heart of darkness Praise for Martin Cruz Smith.

Rose Martin Cruz Smith, Author Random House Inc $25 (0p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. A Vulnerable Russian Investigator: PW Talks with Martin Cruz Smith. About the Author: Martin Cruz Smith grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania, his father a white jazz musician and his mother a Pueblo Indian jazz singer. At first he supported his wife and children as a newspaper reporter and wrote potboilers under various pseudonyms until he sold Gorky Park for $1 million in He lives in California with his wife and they have three children. Rose is a novel by Martin Cruz Smith published in The story is set in Wigan, Lancashire, England, a district with extensive coal mines. Synopsis. Jonathan Blair, a mining engineer, returns from Africa's Gold Coast and, on finding his native England utterly depressing, falls into melancholy and alcoholism.

Rose. ‘The most beautiful women in the world were African. Somali women wrapped in robes suffused with purple, vermillion, pink. Around their necks beads of amber that, rubbed together, emitted electricity and the scent of lemons and honey. Women of the Horn who peered through veils of gold, strands in the shape of tinkling eardrops. They stood veiled in black from head to toe, their longing compressed into kohl-edged eyes. Martin Cruz Smith lives with his wife in northern California; they have three children. For Rose he won the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers. He is also the author of Nightwing, Stallion Gate, and the bestselling Arkady Renko thrillers, Gorky Park, Polar Star, Red Square, and Havana Bay, his latest book. Rose is a novel by Martin Cruz Smith published in The story is set in Wigan, Lancashire, England, a district with extensive coal mines.