Trial by Fire: A Helen West Mystery (Helen West Mysteries) - Softcover

Fyfield, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062301179 ISBN 13: 9780062301178

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2014

Synopsis

A woman's abandoned corpse is found in a shallow grave in a posh suburb. The death hits close to home for prosecutor Helen West as she and detective Geoffrey Bailey have just moved into a new house within the gated neighborhood where the body was dumped. But tensions continue to rise when the victim is identified as the wife of the developer who built the estates, and all of the neighbors begin to accuse one another.

As Helen and Geoffrey dig deeper into the secrets of their sleepy commuter village, they discover a hidden world of passion, envy, and betrayal.

This gripping mystery is perfect for fans of Louise Penny and Ruth Rendell.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

A woman's body is found decomposing in a shallow grave, stab wounds to the neck and blows to the head and shoulders. She is identified as Yvonne, missing wife of local property developer John Blundell. When Antony Sumner, English teacher and Yvonne's lover, confesses to striking her down with his walking stick, it looks like an open and shut case for Detective Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey. Too much so thinks Crown Prosecutor Helen West. Sumner denies murder - and where is the knife? And when Helen and Geoffrey dig deeper into the secrets of the sleepy commuter village what they discover is a hidden world of passion, envy and betrayal.

From the Back Cover:

"Fyfield is well on her way to challenging the P.D. James' of this world for crime supremacy." -The Toronto Sun

"One of the finest crime novelists around." -The Globe and Mail

"Thank God for Frances--. She reminds us that horror lurks beneath the surface of the most humdrum lives and that criminals are also human beings. -- She is now the Queen of the Psychological Thriller." -The Evening Standard

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062301179
• ISBN 13: 9780062301178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240