Saving Grace

R. W. Jones

ISBN 10: 0718126491 / ISBN 13: 9780718126490

Published by Michael Joseph, London England, 1986

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Exiled from the Valleys, divorced, and pushing forty, Inspector Evans is wedded to the Force and fancied for promotion. Nigel Buxton has just taken silk, and with it caught the eye of a powerful mentor. Grace Yardley is thirty-six, secure, serene and elegant, a successful career woman and devoted mother. On a wet and windswept Sunday, unknown hands fashion the act of obscene violence which draws these three irrevocably together.Driven to a lonely, desperate and dangerous quest, Grace Yardley descends into a world of darkness and squalor. For Evans, everyday routines take on the strange fervour of a crusade; while Buxton finds himself forced into legal and ethical compromise. But violence again erupts, from a totally unexpected source, and all three characters find themseleves in a hushed and crowded courtroom awaiting the verdict on a single, crucial issue: can natural justice ever transcend the law of the land? Bottom front corner of cloth very slightly bumped. Small waterstain mark to bottom back of D/J.

Seller Inventory # 023065

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Saving Grace
• Publisher: Michael Joseph, London England
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718126491
• ISBN 13: 9780718126490
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good/Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

First edition, first printing hardcover, with clipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket edges and spine are creased, and numbers penned to inner front flap. Rear board is lightly marked, and page block and page edges are tanned. Pages and text are otherwise clear and unmarked throughout. LW

From Publishers Weekly

Britain's criminal justice system is put on trial in this compelling story about a mother who is charged with shooting the man who raped and killed her child. Grace Yardley is an iron-willed, enigmatic, intensely private yet utterly alluring woman who wins the admiration of detective inspector Evans as he investigates her daughter's murder. When the captured killer is freed on a technicality, Grace shoots him down before TV cameras. The result is a trial that grips the conscience of the nation. It is left to Grace's advocate, Nigel Buxtonwho is also succumbing to her charmto defend her in a most unexpected way, even as evidence against his client mounts. Anguished mother or liar and prostitutewhich is she? Readers will be mesmerized by this highly authentic first novel.
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