Standing In The Shadows (A Laura Principal investigation) - Hardcover

Spring, Michelle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752804499 ISBN 13: 9780752804491

Publisher: Orion, 1998

Synopsis

Laura Principal is repelled but fascinated when she is asked to investigate the case of an eleven-year-old boy who has murdered his foster mother. It is not the sort of crime one would expect in Cambridge. And that's not all. someone with a vested interest in the foster mother's murder is standing the shadows, watching Laura's every move ...

About this title

About the Author:

Michelle Spring was raised on Vancouver Island. She worked for many years as an academic in Cambridge where she lives with her husband and their two children. She has written several academic books. This is her fifth 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?

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: Orion
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0752804499
• ISBN 13: 9780752804491
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312