Review
"MICHELLE SPRING IS A MAJOR NEW NOVELIST whose literate, intricately patterned storytelling will be warmly greeted by fans of P. D. James and Minette Walters."
--SANDRA SCOPPETTONE
"AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT FOR WHAT PROMISES TO BE AN EXCELLENT SERIES . . . This is a well-constructed and highly readable suspense tale with feminist overtones and terrific characters."
--The Toronto Globe and Mail
"SERIOUSLY CREEPY."
--FRANCES FYFIELD
--SANDRA SCOPPETTONE
"AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT FOR WHAT PROMISES TO BE AN EXCELLENT SERIES . . . This is a well-constructed and highly readable suspense tale with feminist overtones and terrific characters."
--The Toronto Globe and Mail
"SERIOUSLY CREEPY."
--FRANCES FYFIELD
Book Description
Wildfell Cottage is a serene weekend oasis for three career women whose lives have taken sudden turns. But they are barely acquainted before one of them is dead--and another is determined to find out why.
Between the worlds of academia, art, and politics, someone slipped into a woman's life and snuffed it out in a burst of rage, leaving Laura Principal to untangle a wicked web of secrets and hypocrisy. What Laura finds is the perfect suspect. Unfortunately, a better one has found her. . . .
Between the worlds of academia, art, and politics, someone slipped into a woman's life and snuffed it out in a burst of rage, leaving Laura Principal to untangle a wicked web of secrets and hypocrisy. What Laura finds is the perfect suspect. Unfortunately, a better one has found her. . . .
From the Back Cover
"MICHELLE SPRING IS A MAJOR NEW NOVELIST whose literate, intricately patterned storytelling will be warmly greeted by fans of P. D. James and Minette Walters."
--SANDRA SCOPPETTONE
"AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT FOR WHAT PROMISES TO BE AN EXCELLENT SERIES . . . This is a well-constructed and highly readable suspense tale with feminist overtones and terrific characters."
--The Toronto Globe and Mail
"SERIOUSLY CREEPY."
--FRANCES FYFIELD
About the Author
Michelle Spring grew up in Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, later moving to Cambridge, England, where she currently lives with her husband and two young children. Under the name Michelle Stanworth, she has had an academic career that spans two and a half decades, four academic books, an affiliated lectureship at Cambridge University, and, most recently, the Professorship of Sociology at Anglia University in Cambridge. Every Breath You Take was nominated for both an Anthony Award and an Arthur Ellis Award as Best First Novel. She is also the author of Running for Shelter, Standing in the Shadows, and Nights in White Satin.
