A Dark Devotion: A Novel - Hardcover

Francis, Clare

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1569473250 ISBN 13: 9781569473252

Publisher: Soho Press, 2003

Synopsis

Her marriage strained by her husband's conflicting ethical views, criminal lawyer Alex takes the case of old friend Will Dearden, who was once enamored of Alex and whose wife has disappeared under circumstances that implicate him.

About this title

About the Author:

Clare Francis is the author of the bestselling novels Night Sky, Red Crystal, and Wolf Winter as well as the nonfiction bestsellers Come Hell or High Water, Come Wind or Weather, and The Commanding Sea. A Dark Devotion is the third Clare Francis novel to be published by Soho, after Deceit and Betrayal. She lives in London.

From AudioFile:

In a tale as bleak as the wintry Norfolk marshes, lawyer Alex O'Neil is asked to solve the disappearance of a former love's wife. It turns out that Grace Dearden wasn't quite the paragon she'd appeared to be. Her body surfaces, along with ugly revelations of affairs and shady land deals. Devotion owes a lot to Rebecca and even more to Harriet Walter's expert reading. She ably delineates several characters/suspects but is unable to make them particularly likeable or sympathetic. The predictable conclusion lies in the marshes, but one gets quite bogged down in subplots getting there. J.B.G. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Soho Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1569473250
• ISBN 13: 9781569473252
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304