Product Description

When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos' garden, others rattle ominously in their cupboards. For the bones belong to their teenage daughter Natalie, who went missing twenty-five years ago, and the murderer must be very close to home...Does Natalie's childhood friend Jane - now divorcing her brother - hold the key to the mystery? And are all their memories of a golden girl at the heart of an idyllic extended family false?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #427424 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.00" w x 4.25" l, .42 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 400 pages

From AudioFile
Harriet Walter, an English actor of wide experience, performs this clever English mystery with imagination. Jane Martello sets out to find the murderer of her childhood friend, Natalie, whose body has unexpectedly turned up in the garden many years later. Since the murder happened so long ago, Jane must depend upon the memories of others and on her own recovered memory, which is nudged to the fore by the convincing psychiatrist, Alex. Walter's voices are superb, especially her male voices (which are notoriously difficult for female interpreters). Her authentic-sounding British dialects, her perfect enunciation and pacing, and her perceived pleasure in spinning a good story all make for a worthy production. Just wait until you get to the ending! P.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About the Author
NICCI FRENCH is the pseudonym of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, two English journalists. They are married and live in Suffolk, England. In addition to Killing Me Softly, Beneath the Skin, The Red Room, and Land of the Living, Nicci French is the author of two bestselling earlier books published in the UK, The Memory Game and The Safe House. Nicci Gerrard was born in 1958 and grew up in Worcestershire/Shropshire, near the Wales border. She studied English literature at Oxford University where she received first class honours. Her first job was taking care of emotionally disturbed children. She then taught English literature in Los Angeles and at London University and founded and edited Women's Review, a magazine for women on art, literature, and female issues. Nicci married her first husband in 1981 with whom she had two children, a son in 1987 and a daughter the following year. From 1989 to 1990 she was acting literary editor at The New Statesman, where she met Sean French. They were married in October 1990 and have two daughters, born in 1991 and 1993. Since 1995, Nicci has been a senior feature writer and contributing editor at the Observer. She has contributed to such publications as The New Statesman, The Guardian, The Independent and The Sunday Times and is the author of a novel under her own name which will be published in the UK in early May. Sean French was born in Bristol, England, in 1959. He studied English literature at Christ Church, Oxford University, where he received first class honours. In 1981, he won the British Vogue talent contest and was the magazine's theater critic from 1981 to 1986. He held a variety of journalism jobs, including film critic for Marie Claire and columnist for The New Statesman. He now devotes himself full time to writing books and has published novels, biographies and essays under his own name as well as the novels by Nicci French. A new Sean French novel will be published in the UK early next year. THE LAND OF THE LIVING by Nicci French was published in England in March 2003 and is currently a bestseller. It will be published by Warner Books on May 1, 2003