When love goes wrong, death is the most final settlement of all - Morganna Hutton is a young artist, beautiful and rich. When she falls in love with Archie Edge, she thinks he is the answer to her prayers. But the love of money is the root of all evil, and wickedness in glamorous disguise stalks this compulsive book. From Long Island to the wilds of Scotland, we follow Morganna, first in her quest for love and then for justice...
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Morganna Hutton, an orphaned painter and filthy rich heiress-to-be from Long Island, comes of age the hard way after she weds handsome, Scottish fortune hunter Archie Edge in the latest page-turner from Davies (Nest of Vipers). Archie's mother, the scheming antiques collector Rosamond Edge, helps her son fleece his young trusting wife of millions under the guise of renovating the family's rundown ancestral castle on Cape Wrath. By midbook, the proceedings take a Rosemary's Baby-like turn, and Morganna, who narrates in rapid-fire declarative sentences, must wise up before it's too late. A host of secondaries includes Geoffrey Hollander, a tall banker given to panic attacks who is Morganna's guardian from childhood, and Ben McIntyre, a terse shepherd who proves a loyal ally. Scottish financial thriller writer Davies once again proves expert in crafting absorbing suspense.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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If you've read Davies' wonderful thrillers -- Nest of Vipers, Wilderness of Mirrors, Into the Fire -- and are hoping for more of that here, run away. Run fast. This is a romance/chic lit mess. Entirely narrated in the first person (there is almost no dialogue) the book hits new lows, even for the genre of stupid women making bad choices.
Here's hoping Davies goes back to writing action adventures with strong, smart women. Perhaps this was written by her evil twin?
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Art imitating life?,
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I haven't read this book, but in real life the author shortly after writing this book ran into some spy problems with the Iranians, while cruising with her boat off the coast of Iran.
Art imitating life? Or life imitating art?
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