Stella Duffy
Beneath The Blonde
Pbk published March 2000 by Serpent's Tail at £6.99
ISBN: 1852427116
Siobhan Forrester, lead singer of Beneath the Blonde. has everything a girl could want - stunning body, great voice, brilliant career, loving boyfriend. Now she has a stalker too. She can cope with the midnight flower deliveries and nasty phone calls, but things really turn sour when intimidation turns to murder.
Saz Martin, hired to seek out the stalker and protect Siobhan, embarks on a whirlwind investigation, travelling with the band from London to New Zealand via the rest of the world. As jobs go. this one shouldn't be too hard, except Siobhan isn't telling the whole truth and Saz isn't sure she wants to keep the relationship strictly business.
Beneath the Blonde is the third Saz Martin thriller, following the highly acclaimed Calendar Girl and Wavewalker, and confirming Stella Duffy's position at the forefront of the new wave of British crime fiction.
Ernest J. Gaines
Gathering of Old Men
Pbk published March 2000 by Serpent's Tail at £10.00
ISBN: 1852426608A sheriff is summoned to a Louisiana sugar plantation, where he finds one white woman, about 18 old black men, all carrying shotguns, and one dead Cajun farmer. The sheriff is sure he knows who has killed the Cajun, but threats and violence fail to change their stories.
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