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Someone has stolen the only person John Smith has ever loved - his twin brother Cannon. Johnny will stop at nothing to get him back but Cannon doesn't feel the same way any more. He's married now, and he loves his wife. In a desperate effort to avoid Johnny's destructive brotherly affections, Cannon enlists the aid of Sarah Fortune, a lawyer who has turned helping the needy and eccentric into something of an art form. Sarah hides Cannon's wife for him, but she cannot quite trust Cannon's show more judgement. Is Johnny really intent on inflicting unendurable pain on the woman who has hi-jacked his brother's affections? Sarah doesn't really believe in evil, and it is that lack of faith which makes her shockingly vulnerable ... show lessTags
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Tense, elliptical prose with flashes of real warmth and humour enliven Frances Fyfield’s crime novels. She is a very individual writer – concentrating on the darkness of human existence and seeing it from the inside of her characters for the most part. Not for her the dull police-procedural approach to crime! Her character exposition is particularly good and her prose style is evocative, if rambling.
The plot here concerns an independent female lawyer with a penchant for lost causes, a mysterious death in the past which still causes reverberations for the inhabitants of a small seaside town, and a visitor to a remarkable hotel which eventually seems to take on a strange existence of its own. All of this is enjoyably eccentric in a show more way that has made Frances Fyfield one of my favourite acquired tastes. show less
The plot here concerns an independent female lawyer with a penchant for lost causes, a mysterious death in the past which still causes reverberations for the inhabitants of a small seaside town, and a visitor to a remarkable hotel which eventually seems to take on a strange existence of its own. All of this is enjoyably eccentric in a show more way that has made Frances Fyfield one of my favourite acquired tastes. show less
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Frances Fyfield is a pseudonym of Frances Hegarty, born and raised in Derbyshire on November 18, 1948. After reading English at Newcastle University, she did various odd jobs before enrolling in a law course in the Midlands. But it didn't interest her enough to continue and she moved to London where she was a shop assistant at Fenwicks and theatre show more dresser at the Coliseum. Fyfield eventually did finish her law qualifications and got a job as a solicitor to work with the Metropolitan Police. She has worked as prosecutor for both the Metropolitan Police as well as the Crime Prosecution Service. Fyfield is the author of more than seven suspense novels, including Shadow Play and Without Consent. Her novel, A Question of Guilt, was nominated for an Edgar Award and filmed for the BBC. She has won several awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Blood From Stone in 2008 and the Silver Dagger for Deep Sleep. In addition, her novel, Safer than Houses was nominated for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger in 2006. She also writes psychological thrillers under the name of Frances Hegarty, among them, The Playroom, Half Light and Let's Dance (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- Sarah Fortune; Cannon Smith
- Important places
- London, England, UK
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- Dutch, English, German
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- ISBNs
- 19
- ASINs
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