Rabbit hole
Billingham, Mark
creator
author.
text
Thrillers (Fiction).
Detective and mystery stories
Detective and mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction).
Thriller fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Mystery fiction.
enk
London
Sphere
2021
2021
monographic
eng
388 pages ; 24 cm.
Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Whatever the truth is, following a debilitating bout of PTSD, self-medication with drink and drugs, and a psychotic breakdown, Alice is now a long-term patient in an acute psychiatric ward. Though convinced that she doesn't really belong there, she finds companionship with the other patients in the ward despite their challenging and often intimidating issues. So when one of her fellow patients is murdered, Alice feels personally compelled to launch an investigation from within the ward. Soon, she becomes convinced that she has identified the killer and that she can catch them. Ignored by the police, she must gather proof on her own, relying on the few contacts she has on the outside that still take her calls. But when her prime suspect becomes the second victim, Alice's life begins to unravel as she realizes that she cannot trust anyone in the ward, least of all herself. Having lost her conviction and with her investigative confidence shattered, she comes dangerously close to a psychological point of no return.
adult
Mark Billingham.
"Police. Patient. Killer. Which is Alice?"--on cover.
"Bob Dylan quote transcribed from Rolling Thunder Rescue: A Bob Dylan story"-- Title page verso.
Policewomen
Fiction
Ex-police woman
Fiction
Police
Fiction
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Fiction
Psychiatric hospital patients
Fiction
Psychiatric hospital patients
Crimes against
Fiction
Truthfulness and falsehood
Fiction
Ex-police officers
Fiction
Psychiatric hospitals
Fiction
Drug addiction
Fiction
Murder
Investigation
Fiction
823.92
9781408712443
140871244X
DLC
200728
20240123100224.0
000068879099
eng