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 JosephineΓ’β¬β’s novel, A Shilling for Candles, and Alfred Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the holiday party entertainedΓ’β¬βand expose their deepest fears. But things get out of hand when one of HollywoodΓ’β¬β’s 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 nothingΓ’β¬βand no oneΓ’β¬βis quite what it seems. Based in part on the life of Josephine TeyΓ’β¬βone of the most popular, best-loved crime writers of the Golden Age, Nicola UpsonΓ’β¬β’s Fear in the Sunlight features legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock as a prominent characterΓ’β¬βand features the classic suspense and psychological tension that fans of Hitchcock films love.
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