A Dark Devotion
by:
Clare Francis (author)
Grace Dearsden is beautiful, clever and admired. The last person to disappear into the lonely Norfolk marshes in the black depths of winter. Seven days...and still no trace. With police investigations stalled, old family friend Alex O'Neill returns to the haunting landscape of her childhood. And...
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Grace Dearsden is beautiful, clever and admired. The last person to disappear into the lonely Norfolk marshes in the black depths of winter. Seven days...and still no trace. With police investigations stalled, old family friend Alex O'Neill returns to the haunting landscape of her childhood. And immediately beings to uncover disturbing new clues. Each one draws her closer to a family's tragic secret...'At once we are in Ruth Rendell territory: an eerie setting, a web of adultery, deceit, near-murderous envy and cordial destation...a kind of East Anglian Rebecca' Daily Telegraph
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330368605 (0330368605)
Publish date: December 24th 1998
Publisher: Pan Books
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
An interesting whodunnit, based in England. The narrator is Alex O'Neill who works as a lawyer in the city. She has been called by an old friend to help him deal with the disappearance of his wife. To add complications he is the main suspect in the entire affair. Enough twist and turns and divid...
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I tend to love British mysteries, but sometimes I find them slow. This book, unfortunately, follows the latter form. Although intelligently written, the first-person narrator really doesn't come to life until the last twenty pages of the book, after she's left her shady husband and opened a small pr...
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