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The Night She Died

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7th February 2013

Price: £2.99

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9781405526005

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Julie Holmes has always held a seductive power over men. Her golden hair and deep blue eyes entrance admirers wherever she goes, even after she leaves London for peaceful Kent with her doting husband. But could any of these devotees have become so obsessed as to turn a knife on her?

Inspector Thanet refuses to accept this assumption. He is much more curious about the events of a foggy November evening nearly twenty years ago, when Julie was only three, and their link to the hideous nightmares she suffered in the weeks prior to her death.

Slowly, as Thanet works through his feverish thoughts, he comes upon a theory that would solve not one murder but two . . .

Reviews

Annabel
Dorothy Simpson is a contemporary Agatha Christie, renowned for weaving murder mysteries round credible characters in very English settings
Observer
All the traditional home comforts of English village murder, with a final twist
The Lady
Thrillers that are both well written and crisply plotted do not come along every day, so a Dorothy Simpson novel is a welcome and engrossing treat
Yorkshire Post
The creation of that most likeable policeman, Detective Inspector Luke Thanet, and his sidekick, was a stroke of genius
Literary Review
A Triumph
The Times
Simpson can disinter the past with the best of them, and her portrait of a small community is matchless