Play Dead

by Peter Dickinson

Book Overview

A Gold Dagger Award-winner offers a shapely and intelligent (Chicago Tribune) new mystery. Gran Poppy Tasker's life becomes a little too interesting, when a corpse is found near the playground where she watches her beloved grandson play--and the political turmoil of the time reaches into her life in the form of an intriguing--and dangerous--man.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446401129
• ISBN13: 9780446401128
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

A smart, "not too scary," beautiful murder mystery to grow with

Peter Dickinson's Play Dead is a beautiful book. It is not meant to be funny or frightening, but to draw our attention to life: children, music, relationships, love. In her attempts to understand a murder, Poppy Tasker confronts the choices that have led her to become small-of-spirit. As she comes to understand the forces that led to the murder (as well as the unintended consequences of wrong conclusions about them), she learns what is important to her and becomes "She-who-knows-what-she-wants."