Barbara L. reviewed on 8/25/2008 + 988 more book reviews

At 38 Alicia Parnell remained as vivacious and exciting as she had been at seventeen. Until someone strangled her. Her corpse lay sprawled across the elegant four poster bed at the Black Swan Hotel inSturrenden,the picturesque Kentish town she had left twenty years before. It was her frst time back and her last. When Britains Inspector Tantarrived at the scene, he recognised th strangler's victim as the popular girl from his school days that so may had idolized and that a jilted boyfriend had killed hiself for. Why had she returned? Whom had she seen Thanet knew she had attended a concert by another old school chum, but the only clues he had to her murder were a mssing red folder, a telephone call... and a trail of hate, passion and long-kept secrets taht led across he years straight to Sturrenden and death.

The London Times said: A plesure to read, expertly crafted and executed. Simpson can disinter the ast with the best of them, and her portrait of a small community is matchless.

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