Book Description
In the spellbinding tradition of Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell, author J. Wallis Martin crafts an intelligent, atmospheric British suspense novel as engrossing as it is original.An entire house, long-submerged in the dark waters of a reservoir, unearths a startling find: the corpse of Helena Warner, an Oxford college student who disappeared twenty years earlier.For former homicide detective Bill Driver, it means the reopening of a case that, in his mind, was never really closed.And Driver thinks he knows who did it.But three of Helena's friends-her cold former lover Ian Gilmore, her jealous best friend Joan Poole, and talented but institutionalized artist Richard Wachmann-conspire to keep a decades-old, deadly secret from seeing the light of day...all the while, a killer continues to strike again and again.AUTHORBIO: J. WALLIS MARTIN, novelist and screenwriter, has a keen interest in mythology and cinema.She lives in London.
From the Publisher
"[A] stylish anatomy of a murder...Intelligent and impeccably plotted, this is one of the best thrillers you'll read this year." --
Cosmopolitan (UK)
"Martin superbly peels back the layers of deception...[Her] psychological thriller is a terrific example of the dark, intense character studies the British seem to produce with startling frequency." --San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
"Exceptionally accomplished...Fans of Minette Walters's moody British puzzlers will find it irresistible." --Kirkus Reviews
