Freezing-C

by Penelope Evans

Book Overview

A nameless girl has drowned in the Thames. Her body is brought to the mortuary where Stewart Park works as a photographer and he becomes obsessed with her. Stewart is compelled by her blonde beauty... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569471215
• ISBN13: 9781569471210
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Bone-chillingly twisted and quirky!

Having read The Last Girl, I couldn't wait to read another Penelope Evans book. She has a unique style of writing and her quirky and creepy characters send chills down your spine. This book is even more compelling and strange than The Last Girl!In Freezing, Stuart Park is a 28-year-old photographer at a London morgue. When he's not working, he spends his days in front of his computer playing a heroic character in a game. He also makes sure that his nosy and eccentric father doesn't go near his bedroom. His "life," however, changes the moment he sets eyes on one of the corpses at the morgue -- a beautiful and unidentified drowning victim. There are many strange twists and turns in the story as he tries to find out who she was and why she died. This haunting psychological thriller is not for the faint at heart. But if you love a well-written, quirky and clever thriller, then I strongly suggest that you read it.

The greatest book I have ever read...

Freezing is original, compelling, interesting, quirky, humorous, intriguing but not morbid or dark. The writing is sensational, description an absolute triumph, not too wordy, using suggestion rather than statement. A great manipulation of the potentially disasterous subject - the best book I have ever read.

wonderfully twisted and surprizing

One of the best books I've read all year. Wonderful, non-stereotypical characters, engrossing situations and full of twisted and quirky surprizes. The Best!

Original and Unconventional!

This book scores well for its originality in its plot and character. Stewart Park, the unconventional type of central character in this book, has all his best intentions hidden behind a physically unattractive front. Just one thought, would he have chosen a different approach to conclude his own story if he had not been so obsessed with Rachel's?

Common dull people and their terrible secrets

You have read the concise court facts about a child abuse case, but in what social landscape can such terrible things flourish? This book exposes the sinister and comic social lives of misfits. On the backdrop of misunderstangings and prejudice, secrets and confidentialities a tragic tail is spun. Immortal and biblical themes emerge in strange and distorted shape as the reader is drawn into the thoughts and deeds of the misanthropic cast. The dreadful truth behind the death of a beautiful young girl is slowly and confusingly revealed through the obsessive mind of one of the characters. The reader is drawn so insidiously into the lives of the characters, one lives their petty obsessions and secret guilt, that the reader too becomes implicated in the net of hatred and dependance that binds their lives. Do read this book, but make sure the bath water is hot as you near the last page.