Summer, 1936: Josephine Tey joins her friends in the resort village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephineรขโฌโขs novel, A Shilling for Candles, and Alfred Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertainedรขโฌโand expose their deepest fears. But things get out of hand when one of Hollywoodรขโฌโขs leading actresses is brutally slashed to death in a cemetery near the village. The following day, fear and suspicion take over in a setting where nothingรขโฌโand no oneรขโฌโis quite what it seems. Based in part on the life of Josephine Teyรขโฌโone of the most popular, best-loved crime writers of the Golden Age, Nicola Upsonรขโฌโขs Fear in the Sunlight features legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock as a prominent characterรขโฌโand features the classic suspense and psychological tension that fans of Hitchcock films love.
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