discarded by library
hardback
182pp
published, 1987

Dust jacket
Arlette Picard was the talk of the town. She was very blond, very beautiful, and very French - an intoxicating combination for a sleepy English university community. Her fragile, delicate persona made her even more appealing, but there was talk - in the local pub, on the college campus, behind closed doors - that she was much less naive than she appeared. In fact, while the men flocked around her, the women were less than pleased, to say the very least...

So when Arlette is reported missing, most everyone assumes that she has run off on a secret liaison - most everyone, that it, except Detective Chief Inspector David Webb. And right at the onset of his investigation, Webb finds no dearth of suspects - from jealous wives and girlfriends to well-heeled academicians with reputations to uphold.

But this is only the beginning of a complex mystery whose roots lie in a past fraught with obsession...and which leads to grisly murder.

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