FOLLY'S CHILD - Hardcover

Tanner, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0099685604 ISBN 13: 9780099685609

Publisher: Random House UK, 1992

Synopsis

Twenty years after his supposed death in a yacht explosion, Greg Martin is discovered alive and well, and soon speculations arise as to the whereabouts of supermodel Paula Varna, who had been aboard the yacht with Martin that fateful day

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From the Inside Flap:

More than twenty years after his supposed death aboard his luxury yacht, Greg Martin, financier and internationl playboy, is discovered very much alive and living under an assumed name in Australia, his secret exposed by the woman with whom he shared those years inhiding.  But Greg Martin was not the only one aboard the yacht that fteful day.  With him was Paula Varna, a beautiful former model, wife of a famous fashion designer and the mother of a four-year-old daughter.
The world has always believed that the two had drowned in the wreck together - but if Greg Martin is alive, is it possible that Paula is too?  Among those who would like to find out are Harriet, Varna's daughter, and Tom O'Neill, the fierce, dangerously attractive private investigator who becomes Harriet's lover.
Folly's Child brings Janet Tanner's substantial talents to the glitzy, glamorous world of high fashion.  In a suspenseful story that sweeps across three continents in the search for a beautiful woman with a devastating secret, Tanner expertly combines mystery and deceit with a delightfully unexpected romance.

From Kirkus Reviews:

From the author of an English mining-family saga and other domestic chronicles (Women and War, 1988; Inherit the Skies, 1990), all beefy with bad tidings and traumas, comes this mystery-romance set in the fashion-biz circles of New York, Paris, Italy, etc. Here, a family scandal and old passions are exhumed to solve a 20- year-old mystery involving two headline deaths. Harriet Varna, daughter of famed fashion-designer Hugo, last saw her ``top fashion model'' mother Paula when she was four--two decades ago. Then it was that gorgeous, lusty Paula had sailed away on a yacht belonging to ruthless financier Greg Martin, who also perished in an explosion aboard. Or did he? A certain hard-drinking lady in Italy says he's very much alive--news that stirs the insurance company, possibly bilked, as well as handsome p.i. Tom O'Neill, who begins the sleuth. Also vibrating are: Harriet, who wonders whether mother Paula, too, could be alive; Paula's sister Sally, now married to Hugo, and mother of illegitimate son Mark, who has a guilty secret; and Hugo, who glowers under a heavy conscience. Harriet, inevitably paired with Tom, also sleuths; Paula eventually spills some salient facts; Greg will be run to ground--and there's a new family member. Competent suspense, with routine romantic accouterments and a mere smidgen about the dress industry. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0099685604
• ISBN 13: 9780099685609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416