- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Orion; New edition edition (7 Dec 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752825763
- ISBN-13: 978-0752825762
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,039,734 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Laura Principal, Private Investigator, is having the time of her life. Her business and her relationship with her lover Sonny are both flourishing. Then, out of the blue, Laura hears from the girl with whom she shared her adolescence in Bristol. She hasn't heard from Claire for many years and Laura's pursuit of a lost photograph of her, leads her to another lost girl. Delivering a contract to the home of a client, Laura leaves it with a Filipino girl. 24 hours later the girl has disappeared without trace. Laurasenquirires take her from the House of Commons to a middle Eastern Embassy, from Kensington to Earl's Court, from a lovely garden in Kent to a crisis centre in Notting Hill Gate and then back to Cambridge for yet another investigation. Along the way Laura uncovers a trail of injustice, commercial exploitation and neglect. In getting to the truth, she learns 1 or 2 things about herself....
About the Author
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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Like Ian Rankin's Rebus stories, only much lighter, this is a brilliantly human book packed with great narrative descriptions and a surprisingly involving plot. It is also at times quite astutely witty and becomes all the more enjoyable for it. Full of well-eteched (but not overly so) characters and decent plot developments, it was for me an unexpected pleasure. Most certainly worth a read.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
This author is a great new talent
3 Jun 1997
Format:Paperback
London private investigator Laura Principal, co-owner of the Aardvark
Investigation Agency, has more than enough to do in both her personal and
professional lives. Her partner and lover, Sonny Mendlowitz, is pressuring
the gun-shy Laura for a deeper commitment. Her best friend Helen wants her to
stay more often at their jointly owned cottage in the country. Finally, her
workload is just about to the point of massive overload. Yet when a Filipino
girl, who works for one of Laura's clients, mysteriously disappears, Laura is
compelled to learn what happened to her.
.....The investigation initially appears doomed to failure when her clients. the
Butlers, deny any knowledge of the missing girl. Luckily, Laura finds a
neighbor who disputes the Butlers' claim and witnessed the girl being
forcibly taken from her employer's house. By the time the missing girl's body
is found, Laura has amassed an array of suspects who could have done the
deed. As Laura digs further into finding the murderer, she places her life
and the lives of two innocents on the line.
......Laura is a fascinating woman of the nineties, confident in her ability to
perform her job even though it can turn dangerous without a warning. Still
she is uncertain in her personal life. Michelle Spring makes her heroine come
alive and, in doing so, has the audience rooting for her every step of the
way. Running for Shelter is a cozy British police procedural, long on
investigation, but short on action. It is a cerebral mystery that challenges
and entertains the reader quite nicely.
.....Harriet Klausner
Investigation Agency, has more than enough to do in both her personal and
professional lives. Her partner and lover, Sonny Mendlowitz, is pressuring
the gun-shy Laura for a deeper commitment. Her best friend Helen wants her to
stay more often at their jointly owned cottage in the country. Finally, her
workload is just about to the point of massive overload. Yet when a Filipino
girl, who works for one of Laura's clients, mysteriously disappears, Laura is
compelled to learn what happened to her.
.....The investigation initially appears doomed to failure when her clients. the
Butlers, deny any knowledge of the missing girl. Luckily, Laura finds a
neighbor who disputes the Butlers' claim and witnessed the girl being
forcibly taken from her employer's house. By the time the missing girl's body
is found, Laura has amassed an array of suspects who could have done the
deed. As Laura digs further into finding the murderer, she places her life
and the lives of two innocents on the line.
......Laura is a fascinating woman of the nineties, confident in her ability to
perform her job even though it can turn dangerous without a warning. Still
she is uncertain in her personal life. Michelle Spring makes her heroine come
alive and, in doing so, has the audience rooting for her every step of the
way. Running for Shelter is a cozy British police procedural, long on
investigation, but short on action. It is a cerebral mystery that challenges
and entertains the reader quite nicely.
.....Harriet Klausner
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Another side of England
1 April 1999
Format:Hardcover
Michelle Spring has a wonderful talent for handling dark and challenging subjects in a way that is not depressing or grim. In Running for Shelter, she tackles the subject of slavery in modern England with a deft hand. What I love best about this series is the keen appreciation Spring has for English culture. Every phrase, every description illuminates in some way, without being overdone, and the overall portrait of the country and culture is an authentic and even-handed one. She has written about a newsworthy and frightening topic without getting on a soapbox or digressing into lectures. This is an entertaining and suspenseful mystery that will also leave you wondering about what "civilization" really means.
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