Split Image Pb - Softcover

Judy Mercer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901982645 ISBN 13: 9781901982640

Publisher: No Exit Press, 1999

Synopsis

First there was a phone call, then a chance encounter. He tells Ariel his name is Jack Spurling and he seems astounded she has forgotten him. But Ariel only has one year of memory, the rest erased by amnesia. She learns that Spurling was involved in a murder trial which she covered as a journalist and determines to reveal his past and prove his innocence. A sordid party, adultery and jealousy lead her to question her heart and her gut feelings as past events point towards his guilt rather than his innocence.

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About the Author

Judy Mercer is the author of four critically acclaimed thrillers featuring Ariel Gold -- Blind Spot, Fast Forward, Double Take and Split Image. She received a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Georgia, and has worked as a news reporter, disc jockey, advertising copywriter, advertising director, and freelance writer. She lives in Marin County, California, with her husband.

From Publishers Weekly

TV producer Ariel Gold steps in as on-air investigative reporter in her somewhat disappointing third outing, a slapdash follow-up to Double Take, which left Gold suffering traumatic amnesia after the murder of her twin sister. The first few chapters recap the events of the previous novel: on a pleasure cruise, Eve Spurling goes overboard after an argument with her husband, Jack; only a hung jury has kept him from a murder conviction. Now Gold looks again into the Spurling case for her television show Open File. Additional tension is supplied by the fact that Gold interviewed Spurling during his trial two years ago. She suspects he knows things about her she can't remember about herself. Mercer uses this suspicion to manipulate the reader's interest but never delivers any clear answers for all the teasing?even after Gold and Spurling begin an affair. Because Gold does not have a past, Mercer might have made her a new character, but does not, with the exception of Gold's weight loss, new wardrobe and appropriation of her dead twin's quirky sense of humor. Although the novel's first half makes smooth reading, extraneous characters clutter the stage in the second, and readers are likely to lose interest before the extremely untidy denouement. (Oct.) FYI: Double Take will be released simultaneously in paperback by Pocket.
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Edition details

• Publisher: No Exit Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901982645
• ISBN 13: 9781901982640
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340