- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd; New edition edition (4 Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0684860538
- ISBN-13: 978-0684860534
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 243,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The new superb thriller from the highly acclaimed author of last year's success, Improvising Carla; Carol's curiosity about her husband's role in the unsolved murder of his friend years ago leads her to become involved with a sinister cult headed by the man who has always been regarded as the main suspect. She allies herself with Tim, who is desperate to free his mother and son from the cult's malign influence, but as she penetrates the heart of the mystery and is herself threatened by evil, she is forced to question all her most fundamental beliefs.
About the Author
Joanna Hines was born in London. She read history at Somerville College, Oxford, then studied at the LSE. For over twenty years she has lived and worked on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, with her husband, the Canadian poet Derrek Hines. This is her seventh novel following Autumn of Strangers, The Fifth Secret, Dora's Room, The Puritan's Wife, The Cornsih Girl, The Lost Daughter, and Improvising Carla.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing,
By Bizgen (Liphook) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Surface Tension (Hardcover)
I have enjoyed other novels by Joanna Hines and began Surface Tension with some anticipation. The beginning was no disappointment, although there was a sense of déjà vu until I realised that Ruth Rendell, writing as Barbara Vine, used a similar setting for her novel, A Fatal Inversion.
The heroine, Carol, a today's woman, partner in a hands-on building company was a sympathetic character and I found the first five chapters riveting. The murder that occurred during her husband Gus's stay with his young friends at Grays Orchard in the summer of '76 presented a tantalising mystery. It was at this point that, for me, Ms Hines appeared to lose the plot. The involvement of this very level-headed businesswoman, together with the hard-nosed but sullen daughter of Gus's half-sister, with a totally off-with-the fairies' sect called The Heirs of Akasha, seemed unlikely. Carol, attending the first meeting of the sect, bumps into Tim, the son of her Gus's first girlfriend, in the first of a series of coincidences. What follows was to me quite beyond belief. Why Carol should become involved in helping Tim get his child away from the sect or why one of the inner sanctum with everything to lose and nothing to gain should try to help him was never explained to my satisfaction. Characters change from 'goodies' to 'baddies' and vice-versa without warning, and few are likeable. The leader of the sect appeared to achieve his large and wealthy following with nothing much more than his hypnotic eyes. I found this a disappointing and implausible tale especially in view of Joanna Hines' great first novel, Dora's Room.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant psychological thriller,
By A Customer
This review is from: Surface Tension (Hardcover)
This book kept me breathless and curious for all its 350 pages. She's a sensitive, perceptive observer of humanity - highly recommended.
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