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Bloodless Shadow (New Blood)

Bloodless Shadow (New Blood)

by VictoriaBlake (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $3.41
Synopsis

Sam Falconer is pretty good at taking care of herself. Four times world judo champion, she now runs the Gentle Way investigation agency in London. But when her brother Mark asks her to return to Oxford to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Sam finds herself confronting a past she hoped she'd left behind. Oxford is full of ghosts and Sam has never quite recovered from finding the body of a murdered 4-year-old girl there. To this day, she has no idea what led her to the scene and she dreads being back in the city. As Sam looks into the woman's disappearance, she finds the trail leads back to the university. But the closed academic world is unwilling to share its secrets with a stranger. Soon it becomes clear that someone is determined to frighten her off the case, and then, out of the blue, Sam receives a letter from a man who's been dead for twenty-eight years - her father...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 01 Jul 2004
ISBN 10: 0752863967
ISBN 13: 9780752863962
Book Overview: Spiked with energy and intelligence, Victoria Blake's debut novel marks her as a bright new voice in British crime writing Samantha Falconer is a woman with a past - ex-judo champion and reluctant discoverer of bodies... The trade edition was published as part of the excellent New Blood promotion The New Blood promotion has been extremely well received: 'If this is the standard we can expect from New Blood books to come crime writing is in for a major transfusion' LITERARY REVIEW Wonderful Oxford setting that Victoria Blake knows well BLOODLESS SHADOW is sure to appeal to fans of Colin Dexter and Veronica Stallwood 'Blake's Sam Falconer joins the ranks of strong but flawed female characters who have taken crime fiction by the throat and shaken it until its teeth rattle' Stephen Booth 'The book works on two levels - both as a classic crime story and a journey of personal discovery for its central character. We haven't heard the last of Sam Falconer' Irish Examiner. The second Sam Falconer novel is due out in Orion trade in December 2004

Author Bio
Victoria Blake was born in Oxford and brought up in Queen's College. She read history at Lady Margaret Hall and then qualified as a solicitor in London, before working in publishing and bookselling. She lives in West London with her partner and the ubiquitous cat, percipiently named Dashiell Hammett.