The Cruelty Of Morning

Oct 8, 2024 1:30 AM

Author:Hilary Bonner

A twenty-five-year-old murder, a missing girl, and fatal attraction in a small seaside town...

On a sunny Sunday in 1970, in the Devon resort of Pelham Bay, teenager Jennifer Stone discovers the corpse of a woman in the sparkling summer sea. It is an event that is to shape her destiny and that of Mark Piddle, the young reporter called to the scene, for the next twenty-five years; until the intense tragedy is resolved and a long-buried mystery comes to light.

The Cruelty of Morning is a tale of dangerous obsessions, small town secrets and a destructive, mesmerising love-affair.

Reviews

Dazzling ... A bravura performance ... As well built a thrill machine as a suspense novel can be

—— New York Times

The combination of Japan-bashing and murder mystery makes for provocative reading

—— Marilyn Wilson , Daily Mail

Crichton pulls off a slick thriller at a cracking pace

—— Mike Ripley , Daily Telegraph

Engrossing and memorably exciting

—— Anthony Quinton , Evening Standard

A great storyteller who knows how to make sure that the reader has to turn the pages out of a desperate need to find out what is going to happen next.

—— John Mortimer , Sunday Times

Unequalled ability to build a sustain suspense

—— Peter Guttridge , Observer

Remarkable . . . genuinely clever and learned, often funny, brilliantly constructed and surprisingly touching . . . a debut of scintillating intelligence and scope.

—— Mail on Sunday

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