False Pretences: B Format - Softcover

Yorke, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751552089 ISBN 13: 9780751552089

Verlag: Sphere, 2014

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Her short, sparse accounts of things going wrong and innocent people getting caught up in events beyond their control never fails to induce a powerful sense of apprehension and foreboding (Guardian)

Wholly-and distressingly- believable (Times Literary Supplement)

Yorke has an extraordinary feel for the passions that lurk beneath unremarkable facades (Sunday Times)

There is not a word wasted in Margaret Yorke's deftly constructed crime novels, yet they have a hinterland greater than many novels twice the length. Her understanding of the faultlines that run through human beings is second to none (Diane Setterfield)

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When Isabel's god-daughter, Emily, turns up after years of no contact and in need of help, she feels duty-bound to take her under her wing. To her surprise, Emily is determined to be independent and takes a job as nanny. Emily's charge turns out to be the illegitimate child of the naïve daughter of a well-to-do couple and a ne'er-do-well conman who disappeared before the baby was born. And now he is back, intent on exploiting his parental status in return for cash.

Before she knows it, Emily is caught up in his botched attempts at blackmail, trying desperately to protect her charge from harm, while also shielding Isabel from becoming entangled in the drama. But when events beyond her control force her to act instinctively, with horrendous effect, all their lives are put terribly at risk.

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• Verlag: Sphere
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0751552089
• ISBN 13: 9780751552089
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320