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A novel featuring Crown Prosecutor Helen West and Detective Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey, the central characters of Fyfield's first novel "A Question of Guilt". The plot concerns a crime of passion in an Essex commuter village.
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A woman's body is found decomposing in a shallow grave, stab wounds to the neck and blows to the head and shoulders. She is identified as Yvonne, missing wife of local property developer John Blundell. When Antony Sumner, English teacher and Yvonne's lover, confesses to striking her down with his walking stick, it looks like an open and shut case for Detective Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey. Too much so thinks Crown Prosecutor Helen West. Sumner denies murder - and where is the knife? And when Helen and Geoffrey dig deeper into the secrets of the sleepy commuter village what they discover is a hidden world of passion, envy and betrayal.
From the Back Cover:
"Fyfield is well on her way to challenging the P.D. James' of this world for crime supremacy." -The Toronto Sun
"One of the finest crime novelists around." -The Globe and Mail
"Thank God for Frances--. She reminds us that horror lurks beneath the surface of the most humdrum lives and that criminals are also human beings. -- She is now the Queen of the Psychological Thriller." -The Evening Standard
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- PublisherJohn Curley & Assoc
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0792712005
- ISBN 13 9780792712008
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages270
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