Tower of Silence
Selina March has lived in the remote Scottish hamlet of Inchcape for nearly 50 years. When she reluctantly takes in a paying guest, her secluded life changes forever. Crime writer Joanna Savile has come to interview the inmates at nearby Moy, the asylum for the criminally insane. Her secret aim...
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Selina March has lived in the remote Scottish hamlet of Inchcape for nearly 50 years. When she reluctantly takes in a paying guest, her secluded life changes forever. Crime writer Joanna Savile has come to interview the inmates at nearby Moy, the asylum for the criminally insane. Her secret aim is to question former child murderer, Mary Maskelyne, Moy’s most infamous patient. Joanna’s prying will yield unexpected results, for although they have never met, Selina March and Mary Maskelyne are connected by a shared family tragedyan act of unspeakable cruelty that took place in India 50 years earlier.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780743450898 (0743450892)
Publish date: May 1st 2004
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Pages no: 491
Edition language: English
Rayne takes an incident in the past, something really, really, nasty, that not surprisingly, traumatizes the hell out of everyone involved. And then she sees what happens to those people as time passes: how do they cope, or fail to? She's pure genius at imagining horrible things that can happen to p...
Too much like Denise Mina.