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Dissatisfied with her life with her new stepfamily, ten-year-old Tessa plots to kill her stepfather and blame it on her stepbrother, Joe, a plot of which only her dead father--who, while he was alive, knew the real Tessa--is aware.
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Veronica Stallwood was born in London, educated abroad and now lives near Oxford. In the past she has worked at the Bodleian Library and more recently in New College library.
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With unerring characterization, droll copper dialogue and a gritty London setting, Harrod-Eagles mines fresh pleasures from standard procedural resources. London police officer Bill Slider and his urbane subordinate Atherton identify the corpse found charred in a motel fire as that of Richard Neal, and learn that he was a man involved with many women: a wife, a lover with a daughter, a colleague whom he seduced, another lover with a brutal husband, and a mysterious redhead. Slider, who senses himself drifting away from his wife and family in the direction of a mistress, finds painful personal parallels in the victim's life. As Slider and Atherton follow up leads, the obvious suspects fall to the wayside while several earlier deaths connect to suggest a strange pattern and, finally, a stranger motive. Neal, a fire alarm salesman, was once a fireman who was involved in a colleague's death under suspicious circumstances. Solving the considerable mysteries of this case, Slider finds, helps him only somewhat with his own dilemmas. Harrod-Eagles slyly sifts various strata of society in this admirable second novel, after An Orchestrated Death . Mystery Guild alternate.
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- PublisherCharles Scribner's Sons
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0684195178
- ISBN 13 9780684195179
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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