Chris Westwood: "Stillhet uten nåde". Casino Grøsser nr 156. Paperback

Chris Westwood: "Stillhet uten nåde". Casino Grøsser nr 156. Paperback

Fredhøi, 1995

Originalens tittel: "The Scilence"

Oversatt av Thomas Bjørseth

(wikipedia): Christopher Westwood (born 26 November 1959 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England) is an English author and journalist. Born as the son of a coal miner and school teacher, he is best known as the author of young adult fiction and children's books. He began his writing career as a music journalist before studying Film production & TV production at a college in Bournemouth. After graduating from college, he began a career as a novelist.

Westwood's first publication was in the weekly English music newspaper Record Mirror, where he worked for three years until 1981 and became the first English rock journalist to cover the work of the Irish rock band U2.

His first novel A Light In The Black, was published in 1989 by Penguin Books and became a runner-up for The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. His second young adult novel Calling All Monsters (1990), had film potential and was considered for adaptation by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and later DreamWorks. Westwood's other novels include Brother of Mine (1993), a study of sibling rivalry between twins, Becoming Julia (1995), a taut thriller about a murder victim and her doppelgänger. These were followed by his cyberspace adventure Virtual World (1996), which was set in a world of interactive computer games. This book was in included in the contenders list for the Carnegie Medal.

His Internet stalker psychological thriller, Profile, was published in 2009. The main influence for this novel was the Alfred Hitchcock film Shadow Of A Doubt, one of several Hitchcock films referred to in the novel.

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