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by Stella Duffy (Author) "I would sit in your mother's kitchen and watch the sun come up ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Serpent's Tail; New Ed edition (23 Mar 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852427116
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852427115
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.9 x 1.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 460,150 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Siobhan Forrester, lead singer of Beneath the Blonde, has everything a girl could want - stunning body, great voice, brilliant career, loving boyfriend. Now she has a stalker too. She can cope with the midnight flower deliveries and nasty phone calls, but things really turn sour when intimidation turns to murder. Saz Martin, hired to seek out the stalker and protect Siobhan, embarks on a whirlwind investigation, travelling with the band from London to New Zealand with plenty of stop-overs. As jobs go, this one shouldn't be too hard, except Siobhan is economic with the truth and Saz isn't sure she wants to keep the relationship strictly business.


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Born in London and raised in New Zealand, Stella Duffy is the author of ten novels, over thirty stories, and eight plays.  Her novel State of Happiness was longlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize, and she is currently writing the screenplay adaptation for the feature film production. With Lauren Henderson she co-edited the anthology Tart Noir, from which her story Martha Grace won the 2002 CWA Short Story Award.  She has appeared on BBC Radio 4, in sitcoms, plays and quizzes, and is a performer with comedy company Spontaneous Combustion and theatre company Improbable.  She is an occasional guest with the Comedy Store Players.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars "Blonde" is more Bomb than Bombshell, 25 Jul 2001
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I can't really recall why I picked this up, other than Duffy's name being vaguely familiar from the first in the "Fresh Blood" anthology series and a general interest in cutting-edge crime fiction from the UK. In any event, I soon found myself in a potboiler about a pop star siren who's been getting creepy messages and flowers from a person or persons unknown. Brought in to solve this problem is lesbian PI Saz, who's apparently still recovering from some kind of burn accident that has left her with terrible scarring from her midriff to her knees (I kept waiting for this to be explained, but it's apparently either the remnant of an adventure related in a previous book). Eager to get a little independence from her supportive girlfriend, she becomes a PA to the singer as a cover for her "investigation" and jet-sets around the world with the band as the plot thickens. I put investigation in quotes because she is there more as a entry point for the reader to watch the drama unfold than actually accomplish anything useful. The stalker tale depends greatly on a massive bit of misdirection which never really works because Duffy's narrative technique gives the game away rather obviously. She intersperses chapters written from within the stalker's head that both give backstory, and remove a lot of mystery. In fact, the real mystery is whether or not Saz will cheat on her girlfriend with the bombshell singer. By the end it's hard to care too much what happens as the murders that do occur have unrealistic consequences, and the band members engage in all the usual drugs -n- debauchery one expects in fiction. And between Saz's stupidity and own weaknesses, it's hard to care much about her either.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Duffy at her best, 6 Sep 2001
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Having read all of Duffy's books now, i sat down looking forward to the suspense i'd been used to in the Saz Martin-based books of Fresh Flesh, Calendar Girl and Wavewalker and, to begin with, i wasn't disapointed but about half way through, it dawned on me what the twist was and the second half of the read become tiresome as i just read what i had anticipated would happen. The detail of the characters was still as good as ever but the twists were sloppy compared to her other books, which have kept me guessing til the final pages. If you've got a spare day by the beach, get it, if you want something to entertain you beyond this, buy fresh flesh instead.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing in parts., 21 Sep 2003
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Beneath the Blonde is the only book I have read by this particular author so unfortunately I cannot compare it to her other works. The first half of the book was a good read and I was keen to discover what was going to happen next. However, I was disappointed that I managed to guess some of the plot outcomes quite easily and rather early on in the book. My early enthusiasm for the story changed into hopes that my guesses, which had occured to me so quickly, were incorrect as I read on. Parts of the book felt promising, as if the story was building up to something big but these build ups took a bit too long, especially when I had already guessed what was going to happen so easily. Parts of this book don't really fool anyone. Although certain developments in the plot were a bit obvious for my liking, the author seems talented and has a fun style of writing. Overall, this wasn't a bad book to read. It was just a shame that the PI (Saz) did very little detective work at all.
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4.0 out of 5 stars for better or worse... Saz Martin series: book 3
With 'Beneath the Blonde' we catch up with Saz several months after the tragic ending in 'Wavewalker'. Read more
Published 21 months ago by RD

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't miss it
I loved this book. Very different from its predecessor (though I liked that too) Duffy is much more confident, poetic, with an inventive narrative structure and engaging... Read more
Published on 3 April 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Saz is back, but wait for the twist!
By using small town New Zealand as the background to the plot, Stella evoked all those took me back to the time of my childhood. Excellent imagery. Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2000 by bella@genie.co.uk

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