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Dancing with the Uninvited Guest

On sale

3rd October 2002

Price: £6.99

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340728192

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Lyndle Hall is a medieval manor house lying in the heart of Northumbria’s national park. It is from here that an eighteen-year-old girl disappears – along with Lyndle’s owner, Francis Herrol. First assumptions are that the two ran off together, but evidence indicates otherwise, and when Detective Inspector Tate arrives at Lyndle to investigate and meets Nicholas Herrol, a tormented young man, his fears for the girl’s fate deepen.



Parapsychologist Audrah Sidow is convinced there is nothing on this earth for which there is not a rational explanation. But she knows that there is more to the collection of fractured people gathered at Lyndle than is apparent, and as the police hunt for a dead body grows increasingly urgent, she must discover what lies at Lyndle Hall’s dark heart.

Reviews

The Times on The Long Close Call
Places her firmly in the first division of the newer crime writing generation
Val McDermid on A Likeness in Stone
A compelling psychological thriller with echoes of Barbara Vine and Minette Walters. Well written, intelligent and chilling
Guardian on A Likeness in Stone
Chilling first novel . . . absorbing and genuinely surprising
New Woman
If you like playing mind games, you'll love this book... This superbly plotted novel goes furhter than your aaverage crime thriller and its psychological thread will keep you on the edge of your seat
Yorkshire Post on The Bird Yard
An intelligent, thoughtful story which leaves the reader on the edge of their seat. Well constructed, beautifully written. It will definitely rank among the best crime books of the year
Heat
Entertaining debut
Heat
Guaranteed to imitate its plot and end up as a movie blockbuster, making its writer very famous in the process... An La to London love story to rival Notting Hill
Oldham Evening Chronicle
Thrilling it certainly is
Choice
It's a cleverly plotted story that grips the imagination, and a satisfying read, too, as all the strands come together
The Irish Times
Wallis Martin is building up a steady reputation for her psychological thrillers, of which this present one is her forth...you've got a reliable spine chiller
The Oxford Times
thrilling it certainly is
Observer
Chilling