The Shape of Snakes

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The Shape of Snakes
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First edition
Author Minette Walters
LanguageEnglish
Genre Crime / Mystery novel
Publisher Macmillan Publishers
Publication date
20 October 2000
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback) & Audio CD
Pages400 pp (hardback)
ISBN 0-333-74860-3
OCLC 59579278

The Shape of Snakes is a crime novel by English writer Minette Walters published in 2000. The story won Denmark's Pelle Rosencrantz Award.

Synopsis

In 1978, a black woman known as 'Mad Annie' by her neighbours was found dead in a west London gutter, her body discovered by Mrs. Ranelagh who, despite supposedly not knowing the dead woman, spends the next twenty years trying to convince the police that she was murdered. However, those once familiar with Annie despised her as a mean old eccentric and animal abuser, whilst Ranelagh's husband seemingly disdains any mention of the case.


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