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When Dodie Blackstock, only child of multi-millionaire Wolf Blackstock, is told that her mother's body has been found in a housing estate in Hackney, she is shocked. When she is told that her mother, Susan, has been dead for less than 48 hours, she is devastated. For Susan was kidnapped, apparently by a politically motivated group, when Dodie was eight. Susan was never found, and she was presumed dead. Traumatised by her lonely childhood, Dodie has been estranged from her dysfunctional and complicated family for years. She returns to Camoys Hall, the Blackstocks' stately home, to talk to her stepmother Joan, who lives there by herself. But Dodie finds more than she bargained for - and then she starts to receive anonymous and threatening letters. Who is waiting in the darkness outside Camoys Hall, watching her every move ...?
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Deadly legacy...
It was a media circus that only the British tabloids can create: the kidnapping of beautiful Susan Blackstock by a radical group ? and the refusal of her multimillionaire husband to pay the 10-million-pound ransom. Eight-year-old Dodie Blackstock never saw her mother again.
Now twenty-nine, Dodie has struggled for two decades to step out from the shadows of past tragedy and her father's wealth. But a visit from two policemen changes everything. They bring the news she has waited for years to hear, yet it is completely unexpected. Susan Blackstock's body has finally been found ? and she has been dead only forty-eight hours.
Dodie's return to the family estate brings more confusion than answers. There she confronts a legacy of secrets and lies that shakes her trust in everyone she knows. And trust becomes a life-or-death issue, as threatening messages appear on her doorstep ... and death touches those Dodie loves most.
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It was a media circus that only the British tabloids can create: the kidnapping of beautiful Susan Blackstock by a radical group ? and the refusal of her multimillionaire husband to pay the 10-million-pound ransom. Eight-year-old Dodie Blackstock never saw her mother again.
Now twenty-nine, Dodie has struggled for two decades to step out from the shadows of past tragedy and her father's wealth. But a visit from two policemen changes everything. They bring the news she has waited for years to hear, yet it is completely unexpected. Susan Blackstock's body has finally been found ? and she has been dead only forty-eight hours.
Dodie's return to the family estate brings more confusion than answers. There she confronts a legacy of secrets and lies that shakes her trust in everyone she knows. And trust becomes a life-or-death issue, as threatening messages appear on her doorstep ... and death touches those Dodie loves most.
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"A web of desire, violence and lost opportunity...Masterfully captures the different voices of the three protagonists, and weaves their stories together."
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-- The Sunday Telegraph (London)
"A narrative relayed in the perfect pitch of a writer with pedigree goods to deliver."
-- The Literary Review (London)
Don't miss the "superb...exciting debut"* of Laura Wilson
A Little Death
"A web of desire, violence and lost opportunity...Masterfully captures the different voices of the three protagonists, and weaves their stories together."
*--The Times (London)
Available from Bantam Books
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- PublisherOrion Books Limited
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0752832301
- ISBN 13 9780752832302
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages260
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. The author's second mystery. From the dust jacket: "When Dodie Blackstock, only child of multi-millionaire Wolf Blackstock, was eight, her mother was kidnapped. The family's attempts to get her back ended in disaster, and her body was never found. Now Dodie is twenty-nine, and her mother's body has just been discovered. She has been dead for only forty-eight hours." Dust jacket protected in clear mylar wrapper; bubble wrapped, boxed, and shipped with Delivery Confirmation (USA only). Signed on title page. Seller Inventory # 001372
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