Frances Fyfield Boeken

De vrouw van een succesrijk advocaat wordt in haar eigen huis op bloedige wijze vermoord.

Wanneer een ex-politieagente onderzoekt wie haar zuster enkele jaren eerder op brute wijze heeft vermoord, leidt het spoor naar een relatiebemiddelingsbureau.

Twee Londense zusjes, van wie er een in het klooster zit, krijgen alleen hun erfdeel als ze twee jaar lang niet openlijk zondigen; dat lijkt gemakkelijk, totdat een mooie jongeman roet in het eten komt gooien.

Een Amerikaan reist naar Engeland om zijn jeugdliefde na twintig jaar op te zoeken, maar hij ontdekt dat ze in de gevangenis zit wegens moord op haar gehandicapte zoontje.

In de loop van het onderzoek naar de moord op de echtgenote van een plaatselijke projectontwikkelaar krijgt de politie toch twijfels over de identiteit van de mogelijke dader.

In Shadow Play, Frances Fyfield hones her powers of writerly suspense to give us a sophisticated, psychologically gripping tale about crimes of the most twisted passions. The odd, vaguely menacing little man called Mr. Logo is a familiar figure in the old court building in London. Although frequently brought before the magistrate for indecent assault, he is invariably acquitted due to lack of evidence. He is especially familiar to Helen West, the take-no-prisoners Crown Prosecutor who has just failed for the fifth time to prosecute him. Now he is off-limits to her until his next appearance in court. Yet, when she befriends Rose, the young, compulsively secretive and promiscuous clerk in the office, Helen West unwittingly sets in motion events that will dangerously complicate her connection to Mr. Logo and push his rage and dark passion to lethal extremes.

Isabel Burley returns to her childhood home to look after her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. There she finds an angry old woman, prey to the threats of failing memory, the inability to run her own life and the local villains, who are eyeing her isolated house. The real threat, however, comes from within. Isabel thinks she has gone home to do good, but really she is looking for the love she lacked as a child. Isolated by her mother's growing dementia, the two women become locked in a relationship of hatred and simmering violence, with roots that go deep into the past. . .

FYFIELD IS A WONDER . . . A very intricate and surprise-filled plot." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Helen West, Crown Prosecutor in domestic violence court, is working up a good case of burnout because justice-by-the-book seldom seems to do the women she represents much good. Helen's love affair with Police Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey also seems to be losing its fire. Then, as if someone has designed a test case for her, Helen learns that humble Cath, her cleaning woman, is being beaten by her husband. Cath has no family--her beautiful brother, Damien, has recently been brutally murdered--so she needs all the help she can get. Helen is willing to give it. But as the truth of Cath's young life, her marriage, and her brother's murder begin to take shape, piece by jagged piece, help and justice seem hard to come by . . . and may be forever beyond reach. "Fyfield is a brilliant writer, her pen dipped in acid and moonbeams." --The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Powerful stuff . . . Compelling."

With the skill and empathy which caused A.N. Wilson to describe her as 'the best female crime writer in this country', Frances Fyfield has produced an outstanding novel of the destruction of hatred and revenge.