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Author: Robert Barnard
Genre: Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780749079833
Pages: 238
Rights: UK & Comm ex Canada
Pub. Date: 26th January 2009
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Price: £6.99
Format: Paperback
Everyone in Crossley knew May McNabb. As a local headmistress, she found a place in the hearts of generations as a woman to respect and love. Upon May’s retirement, her daughter Eve thought they would finally have the time to become close again. But it wasn’t to be; within months of retiring May McNabb had died – suddenly and painfully – of the cancer she had kept secret from her daughter.
Lying innocently among the condolence cards and bills on May’s doormat, Eve finds a letter with the potential to unravel everything thought she knew about her mother. As she reads its contents, Eve comes to realise there was a part of May’s life she didn’t know at all – a part that held a secret which would have shocked her family and the close-knit community she lived in if it had ever become known.
“Barnard knows how to keep the tension just right…we are committed to keep reading.”Yorkshire Gazette and Herald
‘Kilometres ahead of his compatriots and a pleasure for enthusiasts of the peel-the-layers-of-the-onion school’Kirkus Reviews
‘The final twist proves that Barnard’s decades in the game have not turned him soft just yet’Morning Star
‘An exploration of prejudice and family dynamics along with a neatly-plotted mystery makes this highly readable.’TheBookbag.co.uk
‘An intriguing story…Barnard knows how to keep the tension just right so that we are committed to keep reading’Yorkshire Gazette
‘It takes sophistication and originality to make a low-key domestic mystery grip as this one does…Barnard always makes it look so easy!’Literary Review
‘Mystifying and entertaining, this is Barnard as his admirers like him with consummate plotting and economical (but on-the-nail) characterization.’Good Book Guide
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