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How could something as innocent as a smile lead to murder?
When Miranda Cotton gets home from work to find her new boyfriend, Brendan, reading her diary, she breaks off the relationship and throws him out of her flat. Getting Brendan out of her life, however, is not so easy.
Two weeks later her sister, Kerry, phones her in ecstasy. She's in love. She has a new boyfriend. He's called Brendan . . .
So Brendan is back in Miranda's life - with a vengeance. But why has he done this? And what does he want from her?
Soon what began as an embarrassment, becomes like an infestation - and then more terrifying than her worst nightmares . . .
Secret Smile, a story of love, obsession and revenge, is surely Nicci French's most chilling novel yet.
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The husband and wife team that is Nicci French have always produced psychological thrillers of tremendous assurance and acuity, and Secret Smile is no exception. Miranda Cotton is incensed to return home to find her new lover, Brendan, deep into the pages of her diary. She angrily gives him his walking papers. But (in an eerie reminiscence of Ian McEwan's Enduring Love), the spurned (and threatening) lover has no intention of leaving his erstwhile partner alone.
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Some weeks later, Miranda is listening to her sister Kerry enthusing about the new man in her life and learns, to her dismay, that the Brendan her sister is praising is her own ex-lover. Soon, she finds herself in a terrifying war of nerves with an opponent who knows how to wield the most lethal of weapons in psychological warfare. Eventually the mental conflict moves towards a physical threat that's every bit as dangerous as the preliminaries. French's novels work so well because of a perfectly judged combination of well-honed narrative (nary a wasted incident) and sharp, truthful characterisation. Here, Miranda and the implacable Brendan are truly memorable creations. --Barry Forshaw
"Nicci French again achieves a magic blend of taut terror and elegant turn of phrase."
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- PublisherMichael Joseph
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0718145194
- ISBN 13 9780718145194
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- Number of pages310
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