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London, 1955. The bodies of three elderly recluses are found in a house in South Kensington. One of the victims is former society beauty Georgina Gresham, prime suspect in the notorious murder of her husband, James, almost thirty years earlier. Beside her lie the bodies of her brother Edmund and housekeeper Ada. The story behind these deaths takes us back to the late 1890s, to a prosperous and beautiful country house where children are playing in the garden. And then the youngest child, Freddie, is found with fatal head injuries ...Told through three narrators, this is a tight, claustrophobic piece of writing so authentic, so completely in period, that it's hard to believe it is not a true story.
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"This is a cunning book. It creeps up on the reader like someone pursuing a friend down a street with a view to patting them on the back and saying hello, but instead giving them a heart attack....fuel for real suspense."
-- Frances Fyfield
"A web of desire, violence and lost opportunity...masterfully captures the different voices of the three protagonists, and weaves their stories together."
-- The Times (London)
"Superb...this is an exciting debut."
-- The Times (London)
And look for Laura Wilson's second novel of british psychological suspense
Dying Voices
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Nominated for the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award They lie, three elderly recluses shot to death, in a musty 1950s London town house crammed with hoarded belongings. When the death scene yields no clues, the police conclude that one of the victims shot the others before committing suicide. But which one? And why? Georgina Gresham, maverick and manipulative, a former society beauty, prime suspect in her husband's notorious murder thirty years before? Her brother, Edmund, her lifelong confidant? Or Ada, their housekeeper, salty, shrewd, and long-suffering?
Buried in the trio's youth is the fatal seed whose dark tendrils overlaid Victorian country summers, the Great War, the Roaring Twenties...and all the cravings and fantasies and twists of fate that would chain them to each other in life...and in one explosive moment of violent death.
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Buried in the trio's youth is the fatal seed whose dark tendrils overlaid Victorian country summers, the Great War, the Roaring Twenties...and all the cravings and fantasies and twists of fate that would chain them to each other in life...and in one explosive moment of violent death.
"This is a cunning book. It creeps up on the reader like someone pursuing a friend down a street with a view to patting them on the back and saying hello, but instead giving them a heart attack....fuel for real suspense."
-- Frances Fyfield
"A web of desire, violence and lost opportunity...masterfully captures the different voices of the three protagonists, and weaves their stories together."
-- The Times (London)
"Superb...this is an exciting debut."
-- The Times (London)
And look for Laura Wilson's second novel of british psychological suspense
Dying Voices
Coming soon from Bantam Books!
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- PublisherOriel
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0752824678
- ISBN 13 9780752824673
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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