Synopsis
Twenty years ago a child vanished without trace from a wild stretch of shoreline in East Anglia. His body was never found and his parents have searched for him ever since. Now on a quiet street in Cambridge the mother discovers a young man whom she hopes against hope is her missing son. But the joy of reunion is laced with dread. Is this beautiful youth an interloper or is he really the lost child? And if he is the boy who disappeared from the beach, where has he been all these years? What, most of all is his connection with the violence that begins with his arrival and ends, almost inevitably, with murder? The parents of the disappeared child ask Laura Principal to investigate and try to find answers to these questions. She finds her own world turned upside down in this chilling story of identity, devotion - and death.
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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.
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Hardcover. fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper, 1st edition. Twenty years ago a child vanished without trace from a wild stretch of shoreline in East Anglia. His body was never found and his parents have searched for him ever since. Seller Inventory # FM18.352
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of the fifth novel in the "Laura Principal" series. SIGNED by Spring on the title page. Winner of the 2002 Arthur Ellis Award for best novel. In fine / fine unread condition. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 17670
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Condition: FINE. First printing. Canadian-born author's fifth mystery, featuring Laura Principal who left an academic life at Cambridge University for a career as an investigator. Ian Rankin called Prinicpal "one of contemporary crime fiction's most intriguing and satisfying sleuths." Like her protaganist, Spring lived and worked as an academic in Cambridge, so she knows the area well. In this novel she is asked to investigate a teenager, who just might be a boy who went missing 12 years ago. 302 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 73961
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