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Cutting Blades

Cutting Blades

by VictoriaBlake (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2006

    $3.40

  • Used

    Hardcover 2005

    $3.40
Synopsis

The year hasn't got off to the best of starts for PI Sam Falconer. London is frozen in a January blizzard, and everywhere she goes, Sam has the creeping feeling of being watched. When she's asked to investigate the disappearance of a talented young rower from Oxford University, she hopes it will take her mind off her increasing paranoia. Harry was a stunning athlete, one of the most naturally gifted rowers the Oxford coach had ever seen. Then, just as the trials for the Boat Race were beginning, Harry literally vanished into the snow. Following the treacherous, icy waters of the Thames from Putney to Oxford, Sam uncovers the reality of competitive rowing, a world simmering with jealousy and resentment. Then a body surfaces in the water - and it's not Harry's. In discovering the truth about his disappearance, Sam must open a Pandora's Box of secrets, with deadly consequences...

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 02 Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 0752876961
ISBN 13: 9780752876962
Book Overview: CUTTING BLADES is the second novel to feature Sam Falconer, one of the most fascinating private investigators in contemporary crime fiction. Spiked with energy and intelligence, Victoria Blake is a bright new voice in British crime writing. Samantha Falconer is a woman with a past - ex-judo champion and reluctant discoverer of bodies... Wonderful Oxford setting, although this is not the 'dreaming spires' city familiar to Colin Dexter fans, but dark, sinister and all too real. Published to tie with the 2006 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - the event around which the novel hinges. Victoria Blake's debut, BLOODLESS SHADOW, was part of the New Blood promotion and received good reviews: '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 '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

Media Reviews
'[A] pacy whodunnnit... Gutsy female detectives are nothing new, but Blake's heroine is an attractive edition to what seems a growing series. Some nicely deadpan humour and crisply detailed descriptions of place offset the obligatory punch-ups.' THE TIMES
Author Bio
Victoria Blake was born in Oxford and read history at Lady Margaret Hall. Having qualified as a solicitor, she began working for the publisher, Gerald Duckworth. She took a year out to concentrate on her writing and began working part-time as a bookseller.