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The Shape of Snakes
First edition
AuthorMinette Walters
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime / Mystery novel
PublisherMacmillan Publishers
Publication date
20 October 2000
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback) & Audio CD
Pages400 pp (hardback)
ISBN0-333-74860-3
OCLC59579278

The Shape of Snakes (2000) is a crime novel by English writer Minette Walters. 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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Novels by Minette Walters
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