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A Cry from the Dark
by Robert Barnard
ISBN: 0743253450
ISBN-13: 9780743253451
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Bettina Whitelaw, an aging and well-known London novelist brought up in Australia, has begun working on a memoir of her early life. One of her most vivid memories concerns a certain unpleasant event from her past. It slowly becomes clear that someone doesn't want her to include that memory in her book, and is willing to go to any length-including robbery, assault, and murder-to keep the past buried.
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"In this quiet and carefully constructed novel Barnard carefully provides the clues which lead to one of his trademark surprise endings." -- Charles L. P. Silet
-- Mystery Scene
"...[T]here is great subtlety to Barnard's character studies of people who came of age in the challenging climate of 'open landscapes and closed minds.'" -- Marilyn Stasio
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 2004
Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.85 pounds
Pages: 288
Publisher's Notes
Bettina Whitelaw has come a long way from her childhood in the little outback town of Bundaroo, Australia. Many years have passed, a lifetime really, but she's never forgotten what happened there on the evening that changed her life forever.
How could she forget the school dance, her taunting classmates, dancing with the strange but brilliant English boy, Hughie Naismyth? How could she forget what happened next, when, overheated and exhilarated by the music and the moment, she wandered off alone into a secluded, wooded area?
Now a renowned, elderly author living in London's elegant Holland Park, Bettina faces a flood of memories as she works on her memoirs, even though her focus is more on the frightening things that are happening today. Someone has recently entered her home and gone through her desk. The intruder is clearly not an ordinary burglar. It must be someone she knows. She's been a little lax in handing out keys, so the suspects are many -- her nephew, Mark; her agent, Clare; her friends, Peter or Katie. Or it could be someone else.
What does Bettina possess that this person would want to steal? A puzzle that at first seems mildly disturbing soon turns deadly serious. Someone is willing to kill -- but why? Does the answer rest in Bundaroo or nearer to home?
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Scribner, 2004-02-03. Hardcover. Like New. Prolific British author Barnard (The Mistress of Alderley, etc.) offers a slow-to-start but strong-to-finish thriller set somewhat confusingly in both rural 1930s Australia and contemporary England. Like New: An apparently unread copy. Dust cover is intact; pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds. ( more information) Offered by The Book Gypsies/Classic Education (United States)
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A Cry from the Dark A Novel of Suspense
Barnard, Robert
Scribner. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. Book Club Edition; 0.96 x 8.78 x 5.77 Inches; 288 pages; <P> <B>Master of mystery Robert Barnard, internationally acclaimed for his suspenseful, witty literary gems, cleverly mixes past and present in <I>A Cry from the Dark,</I> an intriguing tour de force sweeping from 1930s Australia to contemporary London.</B> <P><BR> Bettina Whitelaw has come a long way from her childhood in the little outback town of Bundaroo, Australia. Many years have passed, a lifetime really, but she's never forgotten what happened there on the evening that changed her life forever. <P> How could she forget the school dance, her taunting classmates, dancing with the strange but brilliant English boy, Hughie Naismyth? How could she forget what happened next, when, overheated and exhilarated by the music and the moment, she wandered off alone into a secluded, wooded area? <P> Now a renowned, elderly author living in London's elegant Holland Park, Bettina faces a flood of memories as she works on her memoirs, even though her focus is more on the frightening things that are happening today. Someone has recently entered her home and gone through her desk. The intruder is clearly not an ordinary burglar. It must be someone she knows. She's been a little lax in handing out keys, so the suspects are many -- her nephew, Mark; her agent, Clare; her friends, Peter or Katie. Or it could be someone else. <P> What does Bettina possess that this person would want to steal? A puzzle that at first seems mildly disturbing soon turns deadly serious. Someone is willing to kill -- but why? Does the answer rest in Bundaroo or nearer to home? <P> <I>A Cry from the Dark</I> shows us vintage Robert Barnard as he slyly lays the clues that lead to his trademark surprise -- and poignant -- ending. . ( more information) Offered by Hammonds Books & Music (United States)
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Barnard, Robert
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Barnard, Robert
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Barnard, Robert
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