Jacob Ross
Autor de The Bone Readers
Sobre El Autor
Jacob Ross has been hailed as 'a writer of formidable technical range and emotional depth'. A distinguished novelist, short story writer, winner of the Jhalak Prize, editor and creative writing tutor, Ross is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and had judged many literary prizes including mostrar más V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, the Olive Cook, Scott Moncrieff and Tom-Gallon Literary Award. mostrar menos
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Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Lugares de residencia
- Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago (birthplace)
- Educación
- University of Grenoble
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- Obras
- 16
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 163
- Popularidad
- #129,735
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 13
- ISBNs
- 26
- Idiomas
- 3
Michael 'Digger' Digson is recruited by Detective Superintendent Chilman for a newly formed police force. Digger has his own agenda, however, as he wants to find out what happened to his mother. He is an illegitimate child and his biological father is the chief of police of the Caribbean island of Camaho.
It soon becomes clear that the women and girls on the island are oppressed and abused and that only a few of them fight back, but have to pay for it with their lives. The men always get away scot-free. Digger wants to take action against this, but it's not that easy. With the help of Chilman's daughter Miss Stanislaus, a secretary at the police station and DS Chilman's backing, he manages to solve the cases.
Very excitingly written with lots of insight knowledge about a world that is foreign to me.… (más)