Surface Tension

by JoannaHines (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  The new superb thriller from the highly acclaimed author of last year's success, Improvising Carla; It is the long, hot summer of 1976. Six friends share an idyllic few months at Grays Orchard. But the endless days of art, love and abandonment - immortalised in the celebrated paintings of resident artist, Gus Ridley - come to a brutal end when one of the friends is murdered. The murder becomes local legend, but is never quite resolved. Twenty years later, Gus's wife Carol knows little about her husband's past; he never speaks of that summer years ago, he never sees his former friends and he no longer paints in the way that made him so famous...until the arrival of Gus's niece, conceived at Grays Orchard during that summer of drought, causes the mystery surrounding the murder to resurface. Carol's determination to unlock the secrets of the past leads her to the one man she believes holds the key. The main suspect of the murder, now the head of a sinister cult, who resides under a vow of silence...

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.25

  The new superb thriller from the highly acclaimed author of last year's success, Improvising Carla; Carol's curiosity about her husband's role in the unsolved murder of his friend years ago leads her to become involved with a sinister cult headed by the man who has always been regarded as the main suspect. She allies herself with Tim, who is desperate to free his mother and son from the cult's malign influence, but as she penetrates the heart of the mystery and is herself threatened by evil, she is forced to question all her most fundamental beliefs.