Standing in the Shadows - Hardcover

Spring, Michelle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345424913 ISBN 13: 9780345424914

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1998

Synopsis

Private investigator Laura Principal plumbs the motives of an eleven-year-old foster child who confesses to the brutal murder of his elderly foster mother, while a threatening presence watches her from the shadows

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About the Authors

Michelle Spring was Professorship of Sociology at Anglia University in Cambridge.

Michelle Spring spent the first half of her life in Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and the second half in Cambridge, England, where she currently lives with her husband and two young children. Under the name Michelle Stanworth, she has had an academic career that spans two and a half decades, four academic books, an affiliated lectureship at Cambridge University, and, most recently, the Professorship of Sociology at Anglia University in Cambridge. In 1994 she published Every Breath You Take, which was nominated for both an Anthony Award and an Arthur Ellis Award as Best First Novel.

From the Inside Flap

murder lingered in the tabloids for weeks. A sweet elderly lady viciously killed in a town outside Cambridge, her skull crushed with a concrete block by her eleven-year-old foster child, Daryll Flatt. Hideous as the crime was, the case was closed when the boy, curled up in the crack of a willow tree, confessed to the murder. Now, two years later, the boys older brother, Howard, hires private investigator Laura Principal to revisit the case--and to answer the baffling question: Why?<br><br>On the surface, Daryll fit the mold of a child murderer perfectly--a hopeless boy abused and cast off by a wretched family. Yet as Laura Principal probes deeper, several curious facts reveal themselves. Perhaps the most alarming piece of evidence never addressed in court--Daryll was particularly agitated the day before the murder. When confronted by his teacher, he confessed: Its a secret. And Im the only one who knows.<br><br>For Laura, each question raises another, and each version of events offers con

Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345424913
• ISBN 13: 9780345424914
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 287