Deception and Desire

by Janet Tanner

Ros Newman has disappeared, but the police are not concerned. They believe her high-pressure job at Vandina, a world-renowned fashion firm, and the obsessive jealousy of her hard-drinking husband have driven her to take an unannounced vacation.
But Mike Thompson, the new man in her life, does not buy this explanation. Nor does Ros's sister Maggie, who fears the worst and puts her own marital problems on hold to join Mike in his search for Ros.
Their suspenseful, romantic, and haunting odyssey takes them - and the reader - on a grand tour of exotic and mysterious locales, from the idyllic Greek island of Corfu to the grim discomfort of a North Sea oil rig, from picturesque New England towns to the wilds of South America in their quest to unravel the secrets of Ros's present and past. Their trail leads them, ultimately, to truths more shocking and dangerous than they could have imagined.

454 pages, Hardcover

First published May 27, 1993

About the author

Janet Tanner is a prolific and well-loved author and has twice been shortlisted for RNA awards. Many of her novels are multi-generational sagas, and some – in particular the Hillsbridge Quartet – are based on her own working class background in a Somerset mining community. More recently, she has been writing historical and well-received gothic novels for Severn House – a reviewer for Booklist, a trade publication in the United States, calls her “a master of the Gothic genre.” Besides publication in the UK and US, Janet’s books have also been translated into dozens of languages and published all over the world. Before turning to novels she was a prolific writer of short stories and serials, with hundreds of stories appearing in various magazines and publications worldwide. Janet Tanner lives in Radstock, Somerset.

Reviews

[Nina Draganova · Rating 2 out of 5]

Пълна каша е книгата. Героите са ужасни,нито един не ми стана симпатичен.

[Magdalena · Rating 4 out of 5]

W moim odczuciu zaginięcie Ros było tylko pretekstem do opowiedzenia historii jej pracodawczyni, Dinah (został temu poświęcony cały rozdział 11, który ciągnął się przez ponad 100 stron i gdy doszłam do końca, chwilowo byłam skonsternowana, bo zapomniałam, o czym właściwie jest to całe "Wszystko albo nic") i jej syna, Steve'a (rozdział bodajże 17). Paradoksalnie, bardziej zaciekawiły mnie właśnie te wspomnienia niż kryminalny wątek książki.

[Pat Raab · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent!