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Synopsis
Attending a reunion at his childhood home in Colchester, novelist Graham Broadbent is astonished to meet a nineteen-year-old girl who claims to be his daughter from a torrid affair years earlier, a situation that unwittingly draws him into the girl's mother's bizarre fantasy world. By the author of The Graveyard Position. 15,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Robert Barnard's most recent novel is Dying Flames. His other books include The Graveyard Position, A Cry from the Dark, The Mistress of Alderley, The Bones in the Attic, A Scandal in Belgravia, Out of the Blackout, and many more. Winner of the prestigious Cartier Diamond Dagger and Nero Wolfe awards, as well as the Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity awards, the eight-time Edgar nominee is a member of Britain's distinguished Detection Club. He and his wife, Louise, live in Leeds, England.
From Publishers Weekly
The latest mystery thriller from prolific British master Barnard (The Graveyard Position) may skimp on his trademark mordant humor, but it offers characters with more emotional depth than those who typically populate his cutting satires. While in Colchester for a reunion, Graham Broadbent, an acclaimed novelist, is jolted out of his complacency by the appearance at his hotel of an attractive young woman claiming to be his daughter. Her assertion leads the aloof Broadbent to revisit a long-past romantic relationship with Peggy Somers, an unrepentant manipulator and fantasist, who may actually be the mother of a son whose existence he never knew of. While a murder gives the book's last third a whodunit, the killing and the quest for the culprit are clearly secondary to Barnard's sensitive exploration of the changes unexpected encounters and unsuspected emotions bring about in his well-portrayed protagonist. Whether or not this signals a permanent change in direction for this Diamond Dagger Award–winner, both longtime fans and first-time readers should be pleased. (May)
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0743272196
- ISBN 13 9780743272193
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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