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It's drizzly November in the Hop Valley and computer software entrepreneur Alison Hope is getting restless. So when her old friend, Philip Hunter, begs her to come to London and help track down a computer fraudster, she accepts eagerly - much to the dismay of Inspector Nick Trevellyan, her friend and lover, who senses trouble - even danger - ahead.
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With a title like this, readers may wrongly assume that Kelly's latest is either a soap opera or a romantic thriller. Wrong. Hope isn't an emotion here; it's the surname of the intrepid heroine, Alison Hope, computer whiz and owner of a highly successful London software firm. No raven-haired romantic, Hope is smart, shrewd, and independent, as her cop boyfriend, Inspector Nick Trevellyan, can attest. Kelly's third book in her rather unfortunately named "Hope" series has Alison helping her friend Philip discover which of his employees is playing a nasty game of computer fraud. Meanwhile, Nick is determined to find the rapist who has already victimized two teenage girls in the small village of Hopbridge. Kelly has skillfully interwoven a whole series of lively subplots with the Alison/Nick storylines, and she's created a cast of appealing characters who are variously shy, bold, earnest, eccentric, tough, funny, and odious. There's humor, action, suspense, and romance--in short, all the right ingredients to make this mystery a winner. Emily Melton
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Newly elevated to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector, Hopbridge CID, Nick Trevellyan (Time of Hope, etc.) must now find the village rapist who targets youngsters the age of Girl Guides, and he must do so with an ambitious new partner, Sheila Walpoke, while his usual sergeant is in hospital and his lady-love, computer-whiz Alison Hope, is off in London trying to find the hacker who's menacing her pal Philip's computer firm. In their separate cases, Nick and Alison each overlook alibi glitches, leading on the one hand to another rape attempt, and on the other to the murder of Philip's Technical Support Manager, the cantankerous and brilliant Zac. Nick will go hand-to-hand with the rapist and Alison will witness the suicide of the murderer before their cases conclude and they reunite. Not much spark here: Nick and Alison are nice enough, if a tad dull--but as before, their ever-so-civilized conversation and mundane insights make for only mildly diverting fare. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherPiatkus
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 074990125X
- ISBN 13 9780749901257
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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