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The wrong hand / Jane Jago.

By: Publication details: [Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Books, 2016.Description: 362 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781405920421 (pbk)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.43 23
Summary: When two-year-old Benjamin is lured away from his mother at a shopping centre and brutally murdered, the last people anyone would suspect are two little boys . . . Ten years later the perpetrators are released under new identities, living within the community they tore apart. With a hostile media determined to expose them and a grieving father vowing to avenge his child, just how long can their secret remain hidden? Focusing on the aftermath of a shocking crime, Jane Jago challenges our ideas of childhood innocence and addresses the human need to comprehend what drives the worst in us all.
List(s) this item appears in: Australian Adventure Fiction
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When two-year-old Benjamin is lured away from his mother at a shopping centre and brutally murdered, the last people anyone would suspect are two little boys . . . Ten years later the perpetrators are released under new identities, living within the community they tore apart. With a hostile media determined to expose them and a grieving father vowing to avenge his child, just how long can their secret remain hidden? Focusing on the aftermath of a shocking crime, Jane Jago challenges our ideas of childhood innocence and addresses the human need to comprehend what drives the worst in us all.

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