'Lumiusly written, thrilling, unexpectedly erudite, and beautifully structured' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail When Ellie Pascoe finds herself under threat, the men in her life assume it's because she's married to a cop. But while they trawl after shoals of red herrings, Ellie is blasted off course with a motley crew of women on a voyage of discovery whose perils make Scylla and Charybdis look like a pair of Barbie dolls. Irish arms, Colombian drugs, and men who will stop at thing, create a tidal wave which threatens to sweep her away. She heads out of town in search of haven, but instead finds herself at the very edge of the storm in a remote clifftop house undermined by the sea. Fat Andy eventually smells a Security Service rat and comes steaming to the rescue, but for once it's too little, too late. Ellie's on her own (apart from her Middle England friend, Daphne; an octogenarian aid-worker and her vapid secretary; a gorgeous South American money launderer; an ancient crone; and a female cop who gets up her se) and must reach deep down into her reserves to find the strength to survive.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harpercollins Publishers, Harper
brand
HarperCollins
GTIN
9780006512875
ISBN-10
0006512879
ISBN-13
9780006512875
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96628022
Product Key Features
Author
Reginald Hill
Format
A-Format Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Publication Year
2001
Type
Novel
Genre
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Dimensions
Weight
316g
Height
178mm
Width
111mm
Length
New edition
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Literary Period/Movement
0006512879
Author Biography
Reginald Hill was born and brought up in Cumbria, and has returned there after many years in Yorkshire. With his first crime novel, A Clubbable Woman, he was hailed as 'the crime novel's best hope' and, nearly thirty years on, he has more than fulfilled that prophecy