Double Exposure - Softcover

Smith, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316643521 ISBN 13: 9780316643528

Publisher: Little, Brown, 1998

Synopsis

Seven strangers, escaping reality, meet by chance on a Caribbean island and form a charmed circle of lasting friendships.
Newly qualified London doctor, Joanna Lyndhurst, is taking a well-earned break on the romantic island of Antigua - ten days of glorious sunshine, without anyone knowing she's a doctor. But Jo is not the only one concealing the truth. Amongst the enchanting and diverse bunch of characters she meets, it turns out not one is quite what they seem.
Lowell, the American lawyer, and Vincent, an art-dealer from Amsterdam, have travelled the world in a long-standing relationship, while maintaining separate lives and private worlds that do not overlap. Feisty New York banking executive, Merrily Morgenstern, keeps them all in stitches with her lurid tales of Manhattan high-life yet conceals her real anxiety about the threat to her own career. Sandy-haired Jessica, steeped in a world of culture and classical music, mourns a lost love whom she dare not discuss. And Cora Louise and Fontaine, mother and daughter from the steamy South, keep up appearances and dread the exposure of their own murky secret. By mutual consent, the holiday becomes an annual tradition as close friendships develop and the group starts to meet on each other's home ground. Yet the Caribbean sunshine has its own darker side. Someone is on the trail of a killer ...
Double Exposure is a hugely entertaining novel combining the charm and wit of a group of friends with a brilliant and nail-biting mystery.

About this title

Product Description:

What you see is not quite what it seems. . .

Jo Lydhurst is a junior doctor, newly qualified at a London hospital. Desperate for a break, she escapes to the Caribbean for a well earned ten days rest. On the beautiful island of Antigua, she meets an enchanting and diverse bunch of characters destined to become friends. There's Lowell & Vincent, Boston lawyer and Dutch art dealer - handsome, good looking , eligible to a degree; Cora Louise and Fontaine, Charleston dowager and Southern Belle, mother determined to make a match for her child; Merrily Morgenstern, acerbic but loveable New York banker, sick of being single - and shy English orphan Jessica, arts organiser extraordinaire. Friends for life, the holiday becomes an annual tradition, but then Vincent is murdered back in Amsterdam and the Caribbean club becomes tinged with
fear. . .

Review:

'A brilliant, twisting climax' -- COMPANY

'A gripping thriller' -- DAILY MIRROR

'Skilfully plotted' -- DAILY EXPRESS

KENSINGTON COURT:'A rattling thriller' -- DAILY EXPRESS

`Chill factor of 10' -- OPTIONS

for DARKENING ECHOES: 'Hugely enjoyable' -- THE TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0316643521
• ISBN 13: 9780316643528
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352