Detective Chief Inspector Tom Maybridge (Death Drop, etc.) is shocked by the car-accident deaths of forensic pathologist Professor Peter Bradshaw and his wife Lisa. Bradshaw had been a neighbor and professional colleague, working with Maybridge most recently on the so-called Rapunzel murders, for which serial strangler Charles Hixon is serving a life sentence. Maybridge's wife Meg tries to comfort the Bradshaws' only child, 18-year-old Simon, living alone in the big family house until the arrival of Rhoda Osborne, who claims to be writing a piece on his mother, who had been an art historian. But Osborne is really looking for clues to her vanished sister Clare, latest of Peter Bradshaw's many mistresses. Simon's life had been traumatized by his coldly neurotic mother, an in-and-out patient at a nearby psychiatric nursing home. His reluctant involvement with Sally, a pretty, calculating worker there, adds another off-beat tragedy to the dark chronicle and inadvertently fulfills Osborne's mission.

RABCK to bookfairy65. Posted 2/5/5.

Thanks catsalive for sending this to me as part of the Aust/NZ sweepstakes prize. I'm looking forward to reading it!

I don't usually read many mystery/thriller type books, but this one was OK, and had me guessing to the end. I can't really say I loved the book, but I didn't particularly dislike it either.

I will be releasing this book again soon.

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Sending this book out with a RABCK book to make up the weight in the bag. I couldn't send the bag half full!

Received with another two books from bookfairy65. Thanks so much! I've never heard of this author, but I usually enjoy crime so I'll give it a go.

Seating in front of the library.