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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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Michelle Spring was raised on Vancouver Island. She worked for many years as an academic in Cambridge where she lives with her husband and their two children. She has written several academic books. This is her fifth novel.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This has all the hallmarks of another clever, competent, emotionally challenging Laura Principal mystery. The locations are beautifully painted - you can taste the sea mists of Norfolk and the bracing air and both sides of Cambridge, the seedy and the academic, are equally real. The character of Laura Principal is ground through her own emotional mill while doing her best to protect the fragile emotions of her client. The premise is excellent : missing infant returns 16 years later to distraught parent - but is it really him? - and the intricacies of the plot slide by in the slow-building tides of emotion and revelation. This is excellent. Read it, and hope for more of the same quality in Michelle Spring's next offering.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Atmosphere, suspense, likeable characters - and the loveliest of settings. Michelle Spring's Cambridge series is about one of the better British detectives. We learn just enough about Laura Principal's private lifte to make her rounded and interesting, and clients, criminals and friends are well drawn. The plot is good and the story moving. And Cambridge - factual and fictional - is lovely.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Four year old Timmy Cable disappeared from a Norfolk beach, and despite an extensive police search was never found. Now twelve years later, Private Investigator Laura Principal of Aardvark Investigation in Cambridge, is asked by Timmy's father, Jack Cable "Have you ever lost a child?"
Through the eyes of Olivia Cable, Laura faces the ever open wound created by the loss of a child. For Olivia has never given up hope of finding Timmy, constantly over the years seeking the face of her missing child. And now she thinks that she has found him in a street busker named Liam.
Hired by Jack Cable to protect his wife and to investigate Liam, Laura meets the rest of the Cable family and assesses their reactions to the sudden appearance of Liam. Catherine the daughter acts strangely and seems initially unconcerned by the possible re-appearance of her long lost brother. While, Max, Jack's brother, and his son Robin seem hostile. Of them all, Liam seems calm and almost unaffected by the possibility of being Timmy Cable. At one point when gently probing for background information from Liam, Laura chides herself to beware of making judgements because a person who is shy with strangers, may be the life and soul of the party when with friends, and observes that personality and attitude alter with time and circumstance. If this is Timmy Cable, what sort of life has he had. What sort of person is he? and why have unexplained acts of violence in the Cable household coincided with his arrival?.
In a effort to find answers, Laura seeks background information of the twelve year old case from her one time student, Nicole Pelletier, now Detective Inspector with the Cambridgeshire police force. Laura also visits the Norfolk beach where Timmy disappeared. Michelle Spring eloquently transports the reader to the beach on that fateful morning with a storm on the horizon.
Threaded through the investigation is Laura's personal life with her partner and lover Sonny. In this book, aspects of Sonny's personality are revealed which give growth and depth to Laura's relationship, and to the book.
As with Michelle's previous books, apart from weaving first class suspense mysteries, she explores wider issues. In this book the long term effects on all family members who have suffered the loss of a child, and the different threads running through this book each reinforce the other, to provide the reader with a complex fascinating mystery and a thought-provoking story.
With suspense, mystery, emotion, and a dramatic climax, this book is highly recommended. ----- Lizzie Hayes 1 April 2001
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good plot
This book lived up to expectations. I really enjoyed it and the detective, Laura Principal. She investigated the consequences on those left behind when a child goes missing, as... Read more
Published 21 months ago by S. Adams
Suspense, mystery, emotion, and a dramatic climax.,
Four year old Timmy Cable disappeared from a Norfolk beach, and despite an extensive police search was never found. Read more
Published on 25 April 2001 by Ms. E. Hayes
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