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Tierney, Marie.

Deadly Animals / Tierney, Marie. - London, UK : Zaffre, 2024. - v. ; 23 cm. - DI Seth Delahaye 1 . - DI Seth Delahaye, 1 .

Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chilling debut mystery, only the obsessive spirit of youth can save a sleepy town from the savagery within.

Fourteen-year-old Ava Bonney is unlike other children. She has an obsessive interest in the rate at which dead animals decompose. The motorway she lives by regularly offers up roadkill, and in the dead of night, Ava likes nothing more than to pull her latest discovery into her roadside den and record her findings.

One night, she stumbles across the body of her classmate Mickey Grant, and fearing that her secret ritual could be revealed, she makes an anonymous call to the police. When Detective Seth Delahaye is given the case, Ava won’t step back – not when teenagers in her sleepy Sout...

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ISBN: 9781804181881 1804181889

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Police--Fiction.

Subjects--Index Terms: UK & IRL crime / mystery fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Detective and mystery fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.92