From Publishers Weekly
In this efficiently plotted novel, Detectives Lambert and Kelsey investigate the murders of Helen and Joanne Mowbray, sisters whose bodies are discovered near Cannonbridge, an English industrial town. They trace Helen's movements after her arrival in Cannonbridge some years earlier, and in doing so ruffle local feathers. Suspicion is cast on several county bigwigs, among them: J. Preston Fletcher, a businessman with national political aspirations, and David Hinckley, a designer who had an affair with Helen. Despite Page's generally quiet narrative style, the novel is darkly atmospheric and generates substantial tension. Her depiction of small-city English life is naturalistic, and its caustic quality provides a spice that compensates for what might otherwise be major deficiencies: a shortage of human warmth and humor.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
