From Publishers Weekly
A cruel and manipulative woman is strangled to death in a British village in Barnard's subtle, delightful novel.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Barnard's new contribution evidences the same excellent plotting and characterization seen in A Scandal in Belgravia ( LJ 7/91). This time, his psychological study centers on a wealthy, highly intelligent, but condescending popular biographer who tries to direct the lives of two teenaged village boys. Lydia's first attempt to mold young lives--those of her own two nephews--ended unsuccessfully, and so does her new attempt: someone murders her. Chief among the suspects stand her sister and alcoholic husband, her surviving nephew, a wimpy ex-husband, and the boys' ineffectual father. Up to the usual high standard.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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