Dissatisfied with her life with her new stepfamily, ten-year-old Tessa plots to kill her stepfather and blame it on her stepbrother, Joe, a plot of which only her dead father--who, while he was alive, knew the real Tessa--is aware.
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From Publishers Weekly
With unerring characterization, droll copper dialogue and a gritty London setting, Harrod-Eagles mines fresh pleasures from standard procedural resources. London police officer Bill Slider and his urbane subordinate Atherton identify the corpse found charred in a motel fire as that of Richard Neal, and learn that he was a man involved with many women: a wife, a lover with a daughter, a colleague whom he seduced, another lover with a brutal husband, and a mysterious redhead. Slider, who senses himself drifting away from his wife and family in the direction of a mistress, finds painful personal parallels in the victim's life. As Slider and Atherton follow up leads, the obvious suspects fall to the wayside while several earlier deaths connect to suggest a strange pattern and, finally, a stranger motive. Neal, a fire alarm salesman, was once a fireman who was involved in a colleague's death under suspicious circumstances. Solving the considerable mysteries of this case, Slider finds, helps him only somewhat with his own dilemmas. Harrod-Eagles slyly sifts various strata of society in this admirable second novel, after An Orchestrated Death . Mystery Guild alternate.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Tess Farrell is a modern "bad seed." Ten years old, she lives with her mother, sister, stepfather, and three stepbrothers in a beautiful old house in England. After three years of widowhood, barely able to make a living, Hanna Farrell has married Malcolm Benson, a financially successful but overbearing man. Tess desperately wants life to return to the way it was when her father Gerard was alive. She is determined to get rid of Malcolm and her taunting stepbrothers. The story is suspenseful, with each character from the inept Hanna to the idolized Gerard presented with all their strengths, flaws, and contradictory motives. As Tess plots her devastating and deadly course, the pressures that have caused this child to give in to madness are revealed. Recommended for public libraries; this book should appeal to both adults and teenagers.
- Roberta Pessah, St. John's Univ., Jamaica, N . Y .
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Roberta Pessah, St. John's Univ., Jamaica, N . Y .
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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