Dark Angels by Grace Monroe  (12)
£5.49
|
Spider Light by Sarah Rayne  (10)
£5.59
|
Beholden by Clare Littleford  (7)
£5.49
|
Dying Light by Stuart MacBride (39)
£3.84
|
Flesh House by Stuart MacBride (34)
£7.14
|
This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but millions of other items are. Join Amazon Prime today. Already a member? Sign in.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Product Description
Review
This suspense thriller is real edge-of-your-seat stuff, as Margaret Murphy's barrister heroine Clara Pascal returns to fight new threats while still haunted by her own recent experiences as a kidnap victim. Having successfully avoided criminal investigations since her traumatic ordeal, she is entrapped by what appears to be a simple child custody case. But then there seems to be a connection with a woman beaten to death while her toddler sleeps upstairs. The method of killing points straight to a convicted murderer out on parole and stalking women. The press are convinced of his guilt, the police are convinced of his guilt, but Clara finds that her instincts are overriding the shadows of her past. There is real violence in this book and a shocking exposition of evil which makes the book genuinely scary. It's slightly unnerving for the reader to be able to empathize with both the convicted and the innocent because each of the major players is picked out from the shadows to be seen as a victim. Part of the author's success is her ability to shift our perspectives about the psychology of violence and its victims so that whatever else is being woven throughout the book, the pace and tension continue throughout. It's not often that you pick up a book that not only compels you to finish it at one sitting but also drives you to seek out its predecessors to find out its characters' histories. Margaret Murphy's previous work beckons. (Kirkus UK)
A British attorney's life after abduction. Clara Pascal survived excruciating degradation at the hands of a kidnapper (Darkness Falls, 2004), but her emotional trauma persists. She's alienated her husband and daughter and hasn't tackled a criminal case as Crown Prosecutor in months, instead relying on her friend Michaela to lob simple custody and divorce proceedings her way. Now she's agreed to represent Chris and Diane Tobin. They want custody of Helen, his love child, whose mother Amy has died. Complications arise when Clara learns Amy was murdered and photographer Ian Clemence, a man who may have stalked her, may now be stalking Diane. Clemence, barely out of prison after serving 12 years for murdering his drugged-out girlfriend with a claw hammer, had contact with both Amy and Diane. And yet Clara, disagreeing with DI Steve Lawson and DS Phil Barton, who are eager to fit him up for this crime, takes Clemence on as a client even though her defense of him loses her Chris and Diane as clients. She weathers panic attacks, a skinhead attack and ferociously uncomfortable moments with her family before dogged investigative work and the empathy of one tormented survivor for another unravels the real story behind Amy's death. Despite an unnecessary subplot concerning a land development project, Murphy's second could be used as a textbook for posttraumatic stress disorder. Let's hope Clara's next case finds her in better emotional fettle. (Kirkus Reviews)
Daily Mirror, April 26, 2003
'All good stuff.'
See all Product Description
This suspense thriller is real edge-of-your-seat stuff, as Margaret Murphy's barrister heroine Clara Pascal returns to fight new threats while still haunted by her own recent experiences as a kidnap victim. Having successfully avoided criminal investigations since her traumatic ordeal, she is entrapped by what appears to be a simple child custody case. But then there seems to be a connection with a woman beaten to death while her toddler sleeps upstairs. The method of killing points straight to a convicted murderer out on parole and stalking women. The press are convinced of his guilt, the police are convinced of his guilt, but Clara finds that her instincts are overriding the shadows of her past. There is real violence in this book and a shocking exposition of evil which makes the book genuinely scary. It's slightly unnerving for the reader to be able to empathize with both the convicted and the innocent because each of the major players is picked out from the shadows to be seen as a victim. Part of the author's success is her ability to shift our perspectives about the psychology of violence and its victims so that whatever else is being woven throughout the book, the pace and tension continue throughout. It's not often that you pick up a book that not only compels you to finish it at one sitting but also drives you to seek out its predecessors to find out its characters' histories. Margaret Murphy's previous work beckons. (Kirkus UK)
A British attorney's life after abduction. Clara Pascal survived excruciating degradation at the hands of a kidnapper (Darkness Falls, 2004), but her emotional trauma persists. She's alienated her husband and daughter and hasn't tackled a criminal case as Crown Prosecutor in months, instead relying on her friend Michaela to lob simple custody and divorce proceedings her way. Now she's agreed to represent Chris and Diane Tobin. They want custody of Helen, his love child, whose mother Amy has died. Complications arise when Clara learns Amy was murdered and photographer Ian Clemence, a man who may have stalked her, may now be stalking Diane. Clemence, barely out of prison after serving 12 years for murdering his drugged-out girlfriend with a claw hammer, had contact with both Amy and Diane. And yet Clara, disagreeing with DI Steve Lawson and DS Phil Barton, who are eager to fit him up for this crime, takes Clemence on as a client even though her defense of him loses her Chris and Diane as clients. She weathers panic attacks, a skinhead attack and ferociously uncomfortable moments with her family before dogged investigative work and the empathy of one tormented survivor for another unravels the real story behind Amy's death. Despite an unnecessary subplot concerning a land development project, Murphy's second could be used as a textbook for posttraumatic stress disorder. Let's hope Clara's next case finds her in better emotional fettle. (Kirkus Reviews)
Daily Mirror, April 26, 2003
'All good stuff.'
See all Product Description