It's simple really. After years of hunting ghosts in California for a living, Jay Richards is pretty damn tired of the whole business. His life is full of jokers and hoaxers, swindlers and sceptics - and that's just his clients. If only Jay could think of something else to do, he would do it- Things soon get even more problematic for Jay when he's hired by heiress Zelda Smiling to investigate a possible haunting at Willoughby, her family's ancestral home and residence of her glamorous twin sister, Helena. For a start, Helena broke Jay's heart years before, a fact that inevitably brings about its own complications. Worse, Helena seems to have left her husband and run off with a lover although this doesn't stop Jay from thinking that she's been murdered. Is our hapless hero just bitter and paranold? Or are his suspicions reasonable? And is any of this connected with the spectral figure that seems to be staiking the corridors of the sprawling mansion each night in Helena's absence? Set variously on the streets of San Francisco, Ibiza's shimmering beaches and in the murky swamplands of North Carolina, The Smiling Affair is at once a gripping supernatural thriller, a sharp satire on the lives of the rich and idle, an atmospheric murder-mystery and a bewitching story about lost love.
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Jeremy Sheldon was born in 1971 in London where he has worked as a script-reader, a DJ and a university lecturer. He was educated at Eton College and the University of East Anglia where he was awarded an MA in Creative Writing. His collection of short stories, The Comfort Zone, was published by Cape in 2002.
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I've just finished reading "The Smiling Affair" and wished the book would never end. It's a modern take on the noir genre, with the protagnist taking a trip through time and space. Sheldon's dry take on saturated wealthy westerners is punctuated by ghosts and lies, a cracking read.
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