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Title: In the Midnight Hour
Publisher: Orion Paperbacks
Publication Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0752844865
ISBN 13: 9780752844862
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: very_good

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Liam is every inch a teenager, busking quietly on a street in Cambridge, when a wealthy woman befriends him, daring to hope that he is the son who vanished off a Norfolk beach twelve years ago. Laura Principal is brought in to settle the question of identity. Is this beautiful youth really the lost child, or is he an interloper? As Laura searches for the truth in this chilling story of identity, devotion and death, she finds herself face to face with a loss that threatens to turn her own world upside down ...

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In this heavily atmospheric thriller by talented writer Michelle Spring, the disappearance of the 4-year-old son of polar explorer Jack Cable is still unsolved after more than a decade. Then a teenage street musician attracts the attention of Cable's wife, Olivia. Certain that the boy is their son, the Cables enlist the services of private investigator Laura Principal. Laura's brief is to discover whether Liam is really the son whose memory is still very much alive within his family, and while her efforts to authenticate Olivia's hunch are not particularly engrossing, her concern for the Cables is deep and heartfelt enough to involve the reader in her quest.

Higher praise belongs to Spring for her gifts of description. Here she shows off her well-honed talent for narrative, character development, and skill in recreating the brooding melancholy of England in midwinter. Fans of Frances Fyfield and Barbara Vine will appreciate Spring's intelligence, craft, and psychological acuity, all on view in this compulsively readable new novel. --Jane Adams

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