Título: Bait
Autor: Daniel Cole
Sinopse: "Eighteen months have passed, but the scars the Ragdoll murders left behind are reopened on a daily basis, the legacy of the infamous investigation infecting all aspects of daily life. Despite the media's best efforts, copycat murders all over the planet have proven to be nothing more than violent mutilations by the unimaginative and deranged. Andrea Hall's memoirs are topping the charts while Halloween saw children all over the country distastefully donning grotesque costumes of the real-life monster in their midst. The Ragdoll, apparently, was here to stay. Over-promoted into the role of Chief Inspector following her work on the case, Emily Baxter is ill-suited to her new bureaucratic posting. Alex Edmunds won't admit it, but he is bored too, having returned to his monotonous job in Fraud after fighting so hard to escape. When Baxter is summoned to a meeting with Special Agents Elliot Curtis of the FBI and Damien Rouche of the CIA, she is presented with graphic photographs of the latest copycat murder: a body contorted into a familiar pose, strung up impossibly across the Brooklyn Bridge, the word BAIT carved deep into its chest. The victim's name: William Fawkes, a Wall Street banker and a very clear message that this murder is different to the others. Baxter is ordered to assist the unrelentingly professional Curtis and the charmingly eccentric Rouche with their investigation, another PR exercise to appease the ever-demanding public. Accompanying them to New York and the scene of another murder, they find the same word scrawled across the victim, torn into the assailant - the word PUPPET. The team helplessly play catch up as the murders continue to grow in both spectacle and depravity on both sides of the Atlantic, building towards a devastating crescendo. Their only hope: to work out who the bait is intended for, how the Puppets are chosen but, most importantly of all, who is holding the strings." -- Provided by publisher.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Bait”, de Daniel Cole, publicado pela editora Trapeze, em 2018 e com 304 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Trapeze
Páginas: 304
Ano: 2018
Edição: First Edition
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 1409168794
ISBN13: 9781409168799
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Trapeze exploram temas contemporâneos com uma abordagem que varia entre narrativas pessoais intensas e thrillers de ritmo acelerado. O catálogo apresenta histórias que transitam entre dramas familiares, conflitos internos e mistérios policiais, criando um contraste entre obras mais introspectivas e outras marcadas pela tensão e suspense. A linguagem costuma ser direta, com personagens que enfrentam desafios emocionais profundos, desde vícios digitais até questões de identidade e pertencimento. A experiência de leitura frequentemente envolve uma imersão em dilemas humanos atuais, com um tom que pode ser ora sensível, ora sombrio, mas sempre focado em revelar complexidades das relações e do comportamento.
