Death and Shadows

Blackwater Bay #4

by Paula Gosling

Laura Brandon didn't want to work for her uncle because she valued her independence. So she recommended her friend Julie for the job of physiotherapist at the exclusive Mountview Clinic. A few months later Julie is brutally murdered in the woods that surround the clinic. Laura, tinged with guilt, wants to find out why -- so she offers herself as Julie's replacement. It isn't long before she begins to regret her impulsive move. Confronted by tightlipped nurses, inter-staff feuds, and strange tales about a shadowy evil that lurks in the woods, she realizes that Mountview and the town of Blackwater itself may have something to hide. But playing detective is rather awkward when the clinic's owner/manager is your very own uncle, and you don't know where to begin.

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First published October 11, 1999

About the author

Paula Gosling is a US born crime writer. She has lived in the UK since the 1960s. Gosling started her writing career as a copy-writer and published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. This won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year and she has also received both the Gold Dagger for Monkey Puzzle in 1985. She is a past Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association.

Her novel A Running Duck, written in 1974 (also published as Fair Game), has been adapted twice into films, once as a Sylvester Stallone vehicle - Cobra and the second time as a film with Cindy Crawford entitled Fair Game.

Reviews

[Paula · Rating 4 out of 5]

7/10

[Chantal · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a good suspence. I want to read more of this author

[JenniferB]

Good story - extremely readable, interesting