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Product Description
Frances Fyfield's novels are "dark, stylish, stay-with-you-at-night psychological suspense of the highest caliber" (Minette Walters)--smart, subtle, compelling, superbly written--and about women. Vulnerable women. Strong women who are also lonely. Women whom life has damaged. And, of course, dead women. In Blind Date, she weaves her hallmark stealthy menace, "unflinching characterizations" (The New York Times Book Review), and acute social insight into a crime novel that powerfully transcends its genre. Elisabeth Kennedy is a classic Fyfield heroine, a complicated, prickly ex-police detective recovering from a brutal attack of deadly acid--a woman who is determined to fight back. As she tracks her quarry through a London peopled by the pathetic and the poisonous, Elisabeth is headed for something far more chilling than loneliness, more savage than self-doubt. With Blind Date, "the best crime writer alive in Britain" (A. N. Wilson) is poised for breakout sales.
Amazon.com Review
Frances Fyfield is a London criminal lawyer who specializes in complex stories about the tangled relationships between the sexes and the big and small crimes that result. Her latest is a subtle, slowly building story that gradually brings together a former policewoman intent on revenge for a murdered sister; two women who find that signing up for an unusual dating service might result in more action than they had in mind; and an apparently kindly and protective man who is also involved with the deadly dating service. Fyfield is the best in the business at showing how women's fears can shape their lives. Other excellent examples in paperback: A Clear Conscience, Deep Sleep, Perfectly Pure and Good, A Question of Guilt, and Without Consent. --Dick Adler
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