A university student has unwisely decided to walk though a night-shrouded park. She is savagely assaulted and wakes in hospital with her memory of the attack wiped clean. Through her tortured consciousness, impressions slowly begin to appear: memories of her attackers--there were two--begin to coalesce. Robinson's sympathy and understanding for the anguish of the student, Kirsten, is detailed with much understated skill and we become as keen as she is to crack the identity of her attackers.

But this is only one of Robinson's plot strands: his other protagonist, Martha Browne, has made her way to the historic seaside town of Whitby with a hidden agenda. Outwardly she is an author doing research for a forthcoming book, but beneath the surface she is tracking down, with steely determination, a malign figure. Who is this mysterious quarry? And what is the connection with the hospitalised student?

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RABCK to Wilksie - Total Surprise!! 2nd Class 3rd August 2006

I am still stunned to find that I won the sweepstake !
Thank you very much for the book Sterile :-)
This book looks interesting and is going on to my (rapidly growing) TBR pile (oh dear!).
Thanks again.

So sorry it has taken me so long to read this!
A good story with interesting characters and a nice sense of place. An enjoyable thriller.

To be left on the Diabetes UK table at my local Tesco.