Threatening Eye (U)

by Lesley Grant-Adamson

'Her top-notcher so far.' The Guardian. A murdered girl in a field, and the search for a man seen near herbody... Roger Dale's seedy double life will be exposed if the police close in. As Dale fears ruin, Jeffrey Miles is rebuilding his life. But tragedy at Benfield links the two men amidst evil, deceit and destruction.

Genres: Crime

382 pages, Hardcover

First published January 25, 1988

About the author

Lesley Grant-Adamson (nee Lesley Heycock) was born in Islington, north London in 1942, and spent most of her childhood in Trealaw in the Rhondda.

She now lives in Debenham, Suffolk, but during the 1980s and 1990s lived in Islington, the scene of several of her novels. Since 1968 she has been married to Andrew Grant-Adamson, a communications consultant and lecturer in journalism at City University and Westminster University. Together they wrote A Season in Spain (Pavilion), a portrait of the Alpujarra region of Andalusia where they lived from 1991-3.

She was educated at Dame Alice Owen School and then worked as a journalist in London and the provinces until the early Seventies when she joined the London staff of The Guardian. In 1981 she left The Guardian to write fiction.

She is a member of the Society of Authors, the Royal Society of Literature, the Welsh Academy, East Anglia Writers and the Crime Writers’ Association.