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Endel & Lofthouse #3
The Sinister Side (U)
The year is 1969. Rose Endel has thrown herself into quiet village life in Midstreet Marsh in Kent. But when there are a number of sudden deaths, tongues start to wag. Rose is unwilling to give credence to the gossip - until it becomes personal. Her old friend David Lofthouse returns from the States, hoping to persuade her to reconsider her refusal to marry him, but instead finds himself the subject of a near-fatal attack. It takes another death - and a fatal encounter with the killer - for Rose and David to spotlight the dreadful truth.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 1997
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Lucilla Andrews
85 books10 followersLucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton
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Lucilla Andrews, Diana Gordon, Joanna Marcus.
Lucilla Matthew Andrews was born on 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt, the third of four children of William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar. They met in Gibraltar, and married in 1913. Her mother was daughter of a Spanish doctor and descended from the Spanish nobility. Her British father workerd by the Eastern Telegraph Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean stations until 1932. At the age of three, she was sent to join her older sister at boarding school in Sussex.
She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 and later trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, during World War II. In 1947, she retired and married Dr James Crichton, and she discovered, that he was addicted to drugs. In 1949, soon after their daugther Veronica was born, he was committed to hospital and she returned to nursing and writing. In 1952, she sold her firt romance novel, published in 1954, the same year that her husband died. She specialised in Doctor-Nurse romances, using her personal experience as inspiration, and wrote over thirty-five novels since 1996. In 1969, she decided moved to Edinburgh.
Her daugther read History at Newnham College, Cambridge, and became a journalist and Labour Party communications adviser, before her death from cancer in 2002. In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Time for Romance became the focus of a posthumous controversy. It has been alleged that the novelist Ian McEwan plagiarized from this work while writing his highly-acclaimed novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence. She passed away on 3 October 2006. She was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her shortly before her death with a lifetime achievement award.
aka
Lucilla Andrews, Diana Gordon, Joanna Marcus.
Lucilla Matthew Andrews was born on 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt, the third of four children of William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar. They met in Gibraltar, and married in 1913. Her mother was daughter of a Spanish doctor and descended from the Spanish nobility. Her British father workerd by the Eastern Telegraph Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean stations until 1932. At the age of three, she was sent to join her older sister at boarding school in Sussex.
She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 and later trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, during World War II. In 1947, she retired and married Dr James Crichton, and she discovered, that he was addicted to drugs. In 1949, soon after their daugther Veronica was born, he was committed to hospital and she returned to nursing and writing. In 1952, she sold her firt romance novel, published in 1954, the same year that her husband died. She specialised in Doctor-Nurse romances, using her personal experience as inspiration, and wrote over thirty-five novels since 1996. In 1969, she decided moved to Edinburgh.
Her daugther read History at Newnham College, Cambridge, and became a journalist and Labour Party communications adviser, before her death from cancer in 2002. In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Time for Romance became the focus of a posthumous controversy. It has been alleged that the novelist Ian McEwan plagiarized from this work while writing his highly-acclaimed novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence. She passed away on 3 October 2006. She was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her shortly before her death with a lifetime achievement award.
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January 24, 2020
Non-con in romance novels is one thing - and the debates are serious and worthwhile. Non-con fantasy on display, when the author very probably has no idea of it, is embarrassing. Your slip's showing, love! And by slip, I mean your subconscious psyche.
Another weird one. I suppose it paid the bills.
Another weird one. I suppose it paid the bills.
December 4, 2020
There’s more deaths in the marsh, David gets in the way of a poker and those Endel genes raise their nasty head again in this third part of the Endel trilogy, published 29 years after the first in 1996 at the end of the author’s writing career.
This could have been a great story but.....in her later books, the Lucilla Andrews was prone to indulging in long convoluted sentences and that’s apparent in this one. It’s particularly unrealistic when it comes to the lengthy monologues she puts in her characters’ mouths, in between their meaningful glances and significant pauses.
Her descriptions of the landscape and the routes Rose takes on her journeys suggests the author knew the landscape she was writing about very well and held a mental map in her head - unfortunately the reader doesn’t have that map and the descriptions, instead of being vivid, now meander on a little too long.
This was not Lucilla Andrews at her best.
This could have been a great story but.....in her later books, the Lucilla Andrews was prone to indulging in long convoluted sentences and that’s apparent in this one. It’s particularly unrealistic when it comes to the lengthy monologues she puts in her characters’ mouths, in between their meaningful glances and significant pauses.
Her descriptions of the landscape and the routes Rose takes on her journeys suggests the author knew the landscape she was writing about very well and held a mental map in her head - unfortunately the reader doesn’t have that map and the descriptions, instead of being vivid, now meander on a little too long.
This was not Lucilla Andrews at her best.
June 5, 2021
I read the book to finish out the series, but I feel like by now, the main characters have just been in the middle of a few too many murders. And I still don't really like David much. The writing gets a bit convoluted in parts. But again, the action moves along enough to make it good treadmill reading.
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