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Guilty Knowledge
Guilty Knowledge
Guilty Knowledge
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Guilty Knowledge

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Clare Curzon turns aside temporarily from Inspector Mike Yeadings and crime in today's Thames Valley to bring us to Edwardian England. In this tale of bygone evil and present-day deceit, Curzon demonstrates that she is as adept as delivering a page-turner in a different time period as she is in spinning a tale of crime in present-day Wales.

This is a story about two titled women, Lady Isabelle Delmayne and Eugenie, Countess Crowthrowne, who share a dark past. Implicated in two vicious murders seven years earlier, they both have histories of naked ambition, duplicity, moral blackmail and betrayal. Inescapably locked together in their knowledge of one another's secrets, they struggle desperately for the upper hand, each aware that a betrayal of the other's past could bring them her down along with her enemy.

The tension climaxes when a summer storm breaks the terrible heatwave of 1908 and the body of a foreigner, bludgeoned to death, is found in the river near the home they unfortunately share. The discovery and the ensuing police inquiry opens the floodgates of their joint and separate pasts, with all its dangerous ghosts and new evidence of a similar death that took place when they were together on a tour of Europe.

In the face of these shocking revelations, police and family members contend over whether the women can be held accountable at this date, or whether, as the family wishes, the whole sorry picture can be conveniently swept under the carpet. It is in this infighting, as well as the crimes that come to light, that Curzon holds the reader's attention until the very last page.

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Release dateMay 27, 2013
ISBN9781466847187
Guilty Knowledge
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Clare Curzon

Clare Curzon has written and published more than thirty novels, under that name and as "Rhonda Petrie" and "Marie Buchanan." Her previous work has taken her to many European countries, but now she lives and writes at her home in Buckinghamshire, England.

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    Let's face it. I read A LOT of mysteries and I love the genre. That's not to say I love all of the mysteries that I read. It seems that I am always looking for mysteries which are intelligent and well plotted; you know, the ones that hold your interest to the end. These, I must say, are few and far between. So when I find one that I like, I want to sing its praises, because I don't always read current works, nor do I limit myself to the bestsellers listed in the NYT. I had no clue about this author, but since her work falls under the category of British mysteries, I picked up one or two of her books at the local used-book store. Having just finished one of these, I must say that I've found an author I can really enjoy, if her other books are as good as this one. If you like a good mystery, you'll like this one.Here's a brief look without a single spoiler:Rain Morgan is a journalist in London, working mostly with gossip, but she has an opportunity to interview a famous artist in France and takes it. Actually, her boyfriend suggests the trip, but when she goes to meet this elusive person, things start getting weird from the start. The artist is not where she said she was going to be, and Rain is asked to meet her aboard a yacht. It is obvious that everyone there is trying to prevent Rain from meeting with the artist directly, and another meeting for dinner is scheduled the next day. Rain gets there late, and on entering the yacht, hears the artist in an argument with a man. She leaves the yacht, goes and sits at a local cafe; on her way back she sees people staring at something in the water. As she goes to see what's caught their attention, to her horror she notes that it's the artist she'd come to interview. And to make matters worse, the police think she may have had something to do with the artist's death! So not only does she have to clear herself, but other incidents crop up that put Rain in danger.The author's writing is quite good and I appreciated the intelligence of the mystery.

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