- This edition published in 2015.
- originally published 1995
- Published by Hodder & Stoughton
- Foreword by Michael Connelly
- ISBN 978-1-473-61093-4
- 383 pages
Synopsis (Fantastic Fiction)
A British actress transplanted to Hollywood, Sarah Broughton plays cool, efficient homicide detective Anita O'Rourke in the hit network series "Good Cop, Bad Cop."
She seems to have it all.... a beach house in Pacific Palisades, all the peace and privacy she needs to forget her troubled past....then she starts receiving disturbing letters from someone who signs himself only as "M". Soon, she is plunged into a nightmare of twisted, obsessive love that threatens her sanity, her life and the lives of her friends. Detectives Arvo Hughes and Maria Hernandez from the LAPD Threat Management Unit must explore the lost years of Sarah's life in order to save her. But Sarah's memories of the long roller-coaster ride of drugs, sex and rock and roll are vague and blurred. When "M's" obsession escalates to murder, the two detectives find themselves in a race against time to save Sarah's life.
My Take
A stand-alone by Robinson, written nearly 30 years ago, set not in England, but mainly in Hollywood, with a very complimentary foreword by Michael Connelly.
At first the fan letters seem just to be a bit over the top and Sarah does not take them very seriously, but the third has alarming verbal images, and comes at the same time as she discovers a dismembered body on the beach where she lives. Even so, Sarah is going home to England for Christmas ans is convinced that by the time she gets back the police will have found the murderer.
The LAPD detectives are convinced the clue to the identity of the stalker lies in Sarah's unsavoury past, but even so his final identity in the last few pages comes as a twist to the plot.
My rating: 4.4
I've also read
- FRIEND OF THE DEVIL (2007)
- 4.6, ALL THE COLOURS OF DARKNESS (2008)
- 4.6, BAD BOY (2010)
- 4.9. BEFORE THE POISON
- 4.7, WATCHING THE DARK (2013)
- 4.3, CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION
- 4.8, ABATTOIR BLUES
- 4.4, THE PRICE OF LOVE
- 4.5, BEFORE THE POISON
- 4.6, SLEEPING IN THE GROUND
- 4.8, CARELESS LOVE - #25
- 4.5, NOT DARK YET - #27
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