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The Night Ferry

by Michael Robotham
Clare Corbett
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A young policewoman breaks all the rules to get to the bottom of the mysterious death of the best friend she betrayed in this stunning follow-up thriller from the author of Suspect and Lost. Ali Barba, a Sikh detective with the Metropolitan Police, is recovering from injuries sustained in the line of duty when she receives a letter from her estranged friend, Cate, imploring her to come to their high school reunion. Alarmed by the urgent tone of the note, and eager to make amends for her unforgivable past behavior, Ali goes to the reunion. Cate is pregnant, but before Ali has the chance to congratulate her, Cate hurriedly whispers, "They want to take my baby. You have to stop them." It is the only hint of Cate's troubles Ali manages to get. As they are leaving the reunion, Cate and her husband are run down by a car and killed. The mystery darkens when it is discovered that Cate had faked her pregnancy by tying a pillow underneath her dress. All Ali has to go on is a file in Cate's desk that contains two ultrasound pictures, letters from a fertility clinic, and various papers that seem to confirm the unborn baby's existence. As she puts together the pieces, her search takes her to Amsterdam and into the company of some very unsavory people on both sides of the Channel who'll do anything to thwart her investigation. A gripping thriller and a searing tale of the search for redemption, The Night Ferry is Michael Robotham's finest novel yet.

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  • Release date

    June 28, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781449899165
      • File size: 353259 KB
      • Duration: 12:15:57

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Claire Corbett's youthful voice and perky energy are a fine fit for Australian author Michael Robotham's latest thriller. Corbett shines as Sikh detective Ali Barba, who played a minor role in the author's earlier novels. Ali is recovering from a back injury when Cate, a pregnant friend from high school, calls upon her for help. Before Cate can explain, a suspicious accident kills her husband and leaves her in a coma. It's up to Ali and retired Homicide Detective Vincent Ruiz to discover what lies behind Cate's call for help. Corbett makes Ali an original--young, independent, intelligent, and wickedly wry in her social commentary. Ali and Ruiz uncover illegal surrogates, baby-smuggling, kidnapping, white slavery, and murder, and Corbett's performance makes it all work. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 9, 2007
      At the start of the sharply plotted third thriller from Australian author Robotham (after Suspect
      and Lost
      ), London police detective Alisha Barba, a Sikh woman who's recovering from a back injury incurred in the line of duty in Lost
      ("After six operations and nine months of physiotherapy I am fit again, with more steel in my spine than England's back four"), receives a brief note from a school friend, Cate, whom she hasn't heard from in eight years: "I'm in trouble. I must see you. Please come to the reunion." At the school reunion, the pregnant Cate tells Ali that someone is after her baby. As Cate and her husband, Felix, are leaving the event, a car strikes them both, killing Felix instantly and fatally injuring Cate. Insp. Det. Vincent Ruiz, Ali's crotchety colleague, accompanies her to Amsterdam in search of answers that involve drugs and frozen human embryos. In keeping with the opening sentence's invocation of Graham Greene, the author's terse, resonant prose hides more than it reveals. Readers will hope Robotham has many more books of this caliber in him.

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