Crown Prosecutor Helen West couldn't make up her mind about Mr Logo. But she barely has time to cross-examine her feelings before she finds herself in a maze of violence.
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Mr. Logo, a whisky-guzzling, Bible-toting road sweeper, desperately combs London for his daughter Enid, missing for four years. To prosecuting attorney Helen West, Logo is a public menace who lures young girls into graveyards, where, she suspects--but can't prove--he fondles them. His neighbors, however, consider Logo a harmless eccentric, and readers of this suspenseful, sophisticated tale of sexual abuse and murder only gradually become aware that he is a woman-hating maniac. West's office buddy, 19-year-old Rose Darvey, who has bedded the whole police force, is actually Logo's missing daughter, using an assumed name; she ran away with her mother to escape his sexual abuse after stabbing him with a kitchen knife in self-defense. Now her mother is missing, possibly a victim of Logo. Sexual banter and police camaraderie give way to a deep exploration of the rage, shame and emotional scars inflicted by child abuse, as Edgar Award winner Fyfield ( A Question of Guilt ) entertains with fully realized characters, withering observations on human behavior and a feminist heroine who swings between a wariness of commitment and a yen to marry her lover, an argumentative cop.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"Brilliant, dark, scary and authentic. This is a book to be read in daylight." -The Globe and Mail
"Fyfield's intelligence is as ferociously penetrating as ever." -Kirkus Reviews
"If you haven't discovered [Fyfield], do so--. This psychological twister has a terrific villain who is so sympathetic you can't hate him - until the next page." -The Providence Journal
"A terrifying chiller in the tradition of Highsmith and Rendell. Sexual energy - female sexual energy - is one of the spine-chilling ingredients. The women have real sexual and emotional needs which are portrayed with devastating realism." -The Evening Standard
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"Fyfield's intelligence is as ferociously penetrating as ever." -Kirkus Reviews
"If you haven't discovered [Fyfield], do so--. This psychological twister has a terrific villain who is so sympathetic you can't hate him - until the next page." -The Providence Journal
"A terrifying chiller in the tradition of Highsmith and Rendell. Sexual energy - female sexual energy - is one of the spine-chilling ingredients. The women have real sexual and emotional needs which are portrayed with devastating realism." -The Evening Standard
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Helen West, Rose Darvey, Margaret Mellors, Legard Street, Dinsdale Cotton, Geoffrey Bailey, Miss West, Crown Prosecution Service, Oxford Street, Chief Inspector, John Riley, Central Line New!
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Helen West, Rose Darvey, Margaret Mellors, Legard Street, Dinsdale Cotton, Geoffrey Bailey, Miss West, Crown Prosecution Service, Oxford Street, Chief Inspector, John Riley, Central Line New!
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- A Clear Conscience (Helen West Mystery) by Frances Fyfield in Front Matter
- A Question of Guilt by Frances Fyfield in Front Matter
- Without Consent by Frances Fyfield in Front Matter
- Women on the Case by Sara Paretsky on page 106
- A Place of Execution by Val McDermid in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Martin Priestman in Front Matter
- A Place of Execution by Val McDermid in Front Matter
- Without Consent by Frances Fyfield in Back Matter
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