A charming and dangerous psychopath, Block worms his way into the Cotton family claiming that he dumped Miranda (when in fact it was she who tossed him out when she caught him reading her diaries) he immediately wins the trust of her flustered parents and does serious damage to her older sister, Kerry, and her mentally fragile younger brother, Troy. Then a short, nasty liaison with a man who calls himself Brendan Block rips her comfortable world apart. Miranda Cotton has an ideal life in London, doing work she loves (building and contracting she always seems to have a spot of paint in her hair), with no current love interest but lots of dating opportunities. ) is one of their most sustained and believable studies in terror against women. Nobody does the dark underside of sex in the city better than the British couple who write as Nicci French, and their latest (after 2003's Land of the Living A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred or boxed review. A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality.
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