{"product_id":"the-woman-who-laughed-by-simon-mason-9781529439700","title":"The Woman Who Laughed","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe very definition of unputdownable\u003c\/strong\u003e — David Peace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMason packs more into 200 pages than many writers do at twice the length\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first months of 2020, there was a spate of murders of Black sex workers in northern cities. One of them was Ella Bailey, last seen talking to a punter in an alley in Sheffield city centre. Although no trace of her was ever found, the punter, Michael Godley, soon confessed to all three murders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive years later, as another sex worker is murdered in the same district, the bag Ella had been carrying with her reappears, hanging on the door handles of a café, and a local vagrant claims to have seen Ella sitting on a bench in a churchyard near the site of the murder. South Yorkshire Police call in the Finder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo begins a search that takes him back to the strange days of the pandemic, to talk to those who knew Ella best, such as her wayward girlfriend 'Loz', abusive boyfriend Caine Poynton-Smith, and respectable foster-parents still struggling to come to terms with Ella's life. How did their intelligent, strong-willed daughter—bright student and national schoolgirl athletics champion—end up in that alley?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs fear grips the city, our Finder must court danger to discover the truth in \u003cem\u003eThe Woman Who Laughed\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47734677831916,"sku":"9781529439700","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529439700-the-woman-who-laughed.jpg?v=1781223653","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-woman-who-laughed-by-simon-mason-9781529439700","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}