03296cam a2200289 4500 1040060534 TxAuBib 20231111120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780857308504 0857308505 69f675b1-c9e7-49b7-a343-d11a737b3ac9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9871132 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Jesmond, Jane. A Quiet Contagion [Libby]. Oldcastle Books, 2023. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2533kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. HTML:Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret. 1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs. 2017. Phiney is shocked by the death of her grandfather, Wilf, who has jumped from a railway bridge at a Coventry station. Journalist Mat Torrington is the only witness. Left with a swarm of unanswered questions, Phiney, Mat and Wilf's wife, Dora, begin their own enquiries into Wilf's death. It is soon clear that these two events, sixty years apart, are connected - and that Wilf is not the only casualty. But what is the link? And can they find out before any more lives are lost? A Quiet Contagion is a powerfully disquieting mystery for modern times, inspired by the 1957 Coventry polio epidemic and the 1955 Cutter Incident (one of the worst pharmaceutical disasters in US history - which saw thousands of American children mistakenly infected with a live polio vaccine) as well as the more recent global coronavirus pandemic. PRAISE FOR JANE JESMOND 'An original voice in crime fiction' - Sunday Times on Cut Adrift (A Best Crime Novel of 2023) 'Jesmond's delineation of her characters as people with plausible flaws and hot tempers adds depth and complexity to a story that might wear its sentiments on its sleeves, yet which is trimly steered and freighted with contemporary resonance' - Times on Cut Adrift (Thriller Book of the Month) 'In an over-saturated market, finding a new voice with something compelling to say in the crime writing field can be difficult. Thankfully there are people out there trying to deliver a twist on the genre, and Jane Jesmond is one of them' - On Yorkshire Magazine on Cut Adrift 'This amazing debut novel from Jane Jesmond will give you all the thrills you've been looking for and keep you gripped from the get-go' - Female First on On The Edge 'Evocative, compelling and pulse-pounding' - Philippa East on On The Edge. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-11-10 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=69f675b1-c9e7-49b7-a343-d11a737b3ac9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=69f675b1-c9e7-49b7-a343-d11a737b3ac9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)