Without Trace (Trevor Joseph S.) - Softcover

John, Katherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905170262 ISBN 13: 9781905170265

Publisher: Accent Pr, 2006

Synopsis

'So intriguing . . . cleverly woven together and tensely written' - The Sunday Times In the chilly half-light of dawn a bizarre pierrot figure waits in the shadows of a deserted stretch of motorway. The costumed hitchhiker’s victim is a passing motorist. The murder, cold-blooded, brutal. Without motive. Doctors at the local hospital Tim and Daisy Sherringham are blissfully happy. The perfect couple. When an emergency call rouses Tim early one morning, he vanishes on the way from their flat to the hospital and Daisy is plunged into a nightmare of terror and doubt . . .

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About the Author

Katherine John is privileged to have published 9 crime books including a Quick Read, The Corpse's Tale by Accent Press in English and translation. In total she has published 40 novels (21 historical as Catrin Collier, 3 raunchy as Caro French, 3 novelisations of TV series as Katherine Hardy, 2 as K A John and 1 as K C Watkins). She also had three stage plays professionally produced before she began writing novels. Her first Catrin Collier Novel, Hearts of Gold was filmed and shown by BBC worldwide. She frequently gives talks, lectures and participates in Radio/TV Arts/Documentary Programmes (BBC, ITV, local and commercial radio stations, S4C and more)

From Publishers Weekly

Billed as a medical thriller, this generally well-written debut set in England is undone by an almost hysterical plot. Things begin prosaically enough, when Dr. Tim Sherringham is called away in the middle of the night to deliver a baby. When he subsequently goes missing, his wife, Daisy, also a doctor, calls in the police. They find two headless and handless bodies along Sherringham's route to the hospital and hear reports of a man in a pierrot costume in the vicinity at the time when the murders must have occurred. Neither of the bodies turns out to be Tim's. Suspense builds as Daisy waits for her husband's body to be found and the detectives, the gentle Trevor Joseph and the misanthropic Peter Collins, puzzle out the significance of the clown and several other missing-persons cases. John creates a sinister atmosphere, especially in scenes taking place at a crumbling seaside pier, and she clearly knows her way around a hospital. But those assets don't entirely make up for some overly lurid descriptions, a conclusion that tardily details the past and the implausibilities of the far-fetched plot.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Accent Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1905170262
• ISBN 13: 9781905170265
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320