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

About this title

About the Author:

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

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?

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.

For Laura, each question raises another, and each version of events offers con

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0345424913
• ISBN 13: 9780345424914
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287