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"Suzanne lives with her painter boyfriend Carl in the seaside town of St Ives. They have friends in Will, owner of the Logan Gallery and a regular visitor to their house every time he sells one of Carl's pictures, Mariette, the kind-hearted library assistant whose racy conversation makes Suzanne blush deeply and laugh at the same time, and the loud-mouthed drunken Fenella, who seems too familiar with Carl whenever they meet in public.
But Suzanne has dreadful recurring nightmares. Orphaned at the age of three when her parents were killed in a road accident, she was brought up by her grandmother who had her educated privately, then married her to the Reverend Robert Foster, an alcoholic and wife-beater. After Carl rescued her from this terrible existence, the nightmares became less frequent - until a spate of poison pen letters and graffiti on their front door brought them on again. Suzanne and Carl feel they are being watched.
Convinced that unfinished business from her past has come back to haunt her, she goes to the police and makes a shattering confession. They think she is wasting their time with lies and Carl, angry at what she has done without consulting him, takes her away to a small hut in a deserted field miles away from anywhere. He assures her it is for her safety, but soon she finds that there are more sinister reasons – and discovers his horrifying past as well.
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John Van der Kiste, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- depressed
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kind of romance:
- late discovery that lover does bad
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Lover is
- a criminal (definitely)
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb:
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 8 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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