by Ashley Bernard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081621374
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«Pièce à conviction» is Ashley Bernard's young adult suspense novel, published in paperback by Castor Poche in 2001 (356 pages, in French).
Paula receives a threat from a mysterious woman who asks her to pass a message to her grandfather. The grandfather confesses that he witnessed an armed robbery by a local gang and that he holds important evidence that the police and the criminals want to obtain. Paula finds herself caught between reporting the crime and protecting her family.
The 2001 edition belongs to the Castor Poche collection (no. 296); the original work was published in 1985.
A title suitable for young readers and for those who enjoy suspense stories and family dilemmas.
Bernard John Ashley is a British author of books for children and young adults. His debut novel, The Trouble with Donovan Croft, published in 1974, won "The Other Award", an alternative to the Carnegie Medal. A Kind of Wild Justice (1978), Running Scared (1986), and Little Soldier (1999) were commended runners up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book. The first two have been reissued by OUP in their Children's Modern Classics series, the third re-issued in a 15th anniversary edition. Ashley's TV drama Dodgem won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment programme (BBC) in 1993.
