Limited, signed edition. In his introduction, Jeffery Deaver describes this novella as an example of the new literary gothic - "it's the story of a woman---a widow---beset by a mystery, setting out on a journey to find the truth behind it and threatened by physical and psychological risks along the way. We find passionate hearts, dreams gone wrong and enigmas slowly revealed until we arrive at the story's stunning conclusion. And, like the best gothic fiction, the story transcends the events it depicts and gives us themes to chew on long after we've finished the last paragraph, themes that have resonated in literature throughout history: how easily love and ambition can mutate into jealousy, deceit and greed, for instance, and how our nature and character determine our ultimate fate." Four tipped on illustrations by Phil Parks. #14 out of 40 Collectors' Copies, SIGNED by all three contributors on the limitation page. 45 pp.
Susan Elizabeth George is an American author of mystery novels set in Great Britain. Eleven of her novels, featuring her character Inspector Lynley, have been adapted for television by the BBC as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
She was born in Warren, Ohio, but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when she was eighteen months old. She was a student of English, receiving a teaching certificate. While teaching English in the public school system, she completed an advanced degree in psychology.
Her first published novel was A Great Deliverance in 1988, featuring Thomas Lynley, Lord Asherton, a Scotland Yard inspector of noble birth; Barbara Havers, Lynley's assistant, from a very working-class background; Lady Helen Clyde, Lynley's girlfriend and later wife, of noble birth as well; and Lynley's friends Simon and Deborah St. James.
This Elizabeth George is distinct from the other author named Elizabeth George (Christian author).