Trance

by Derek Lambert

MISSING WITNESS
The cops found her wandering lost through New York City at 3 a.m. on Christmas Eve. A top fashion model wearing thin gold shoes and a mink as white as the snow that was freezing her to death. Wandering alone with a mind as blank and empty as the snow-covered streets. And as surely as the silent snow had filled her chill footsteps on the icy sidewalk amnesia had blanked out
2 hours and 8 minutes from her mind. Amnesia from shock. Shock from terror. Freezing terror from something so horrific her brain
screamed that it couldn't have happened. But as hypnotism thaws Linda's memory the real nightmare begins...
Mixing the acid menace of a psychokiller with the hard grit of a classic police procedural, TRANCE is a brilliant novel of mind-twisting suspense.
'Outstanding...classy and gripping.' Sunday Telegraph

Paperback

First published July 1, 1991

About the author

Derek Lambert was educated at Epsom College and was both an author of thrillers in his own name, writing also as Richard Falkirk, and a journalist. As a foreign correspondent for the Daily Express, he spent time in many exotic locales that he later used as settings in his novels.

In addition to his steady stream of thrillers, Lambert also published (under the pseudonym Richard Falkirk) a series about a Bow Street Runner called Edmund Blackstone. These, the fruit of research in the London Library, were interspersed with detailed descriptions of early 19th century low life, as the hero undertook such tasks as saving Princess Victoria from being kidnapped, or penetrating skullduggery at the Bank of England.

Lambert made no claims for his books, which he often wrote in five weeks, simply dismissing them as pot-boilers; but in 1988 the veteran American journalist Martha Gellhorn paid tribute in The Daily Telegraph to his intricate plotting and skillful use of factual material. It appealed, she declared, to a universal hunger for "pure unadulterated storytelling", of the sort supplied by storytellers in a bazaar

Lambert was residing in Spain with his family at the time of his death at the age of seventy-one.