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Martin Misunderstood

Karin Slaughter

1998147 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1998
first published
  • 1998Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9781407010694
  • 2008Random House Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9781407005409
  • 2008Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9781407010687
  • 2008Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9781407010670
  • 2008Arrow Books Ltd. · 147 pagesISBN 9780099525899
  • No further detail recordedISBN 9781846571527
  • Bbc Audiobooks Amer · ENGISBN 9781602834347

A darkly comic tale about Mr Less Than Average in an average world from the #1 bestseller.Martin Reed is the proverbial butt of everyone's jokes. Working as a glorified accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his cantankerous mother, he has become resigned to the world in which he lives - the school bullies now pick on him in the workplace, women still spurn him and his arch enemy is now his supervisor.So when he leaves home one morning to find his car bumper hanging right off, he thinks it's nothing more than the usual pranks his toxic colleagues like to play on him.But everything soon conspires against Martin when he arrives at work to find the police on site.A co-worker has been brutally murdered and her body abandoned in a ditch. And the overwhelming evidence points to Martin - especially when he can't or won't admit that he has an alibi.When a second victim is found in the company bathroom, things really conspire against Martin. The one bright star on his otherwise bleak horizon is the beautiful and sympathetic Detective Anther Albada, but even she's beginning to have her doubts about his innocence. Could Martin be guilty? Or is he just misunderstood?

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