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Bourbon Street Books
July 2015
On Sale: June 30, 2015
368 pages
ISBN: 0062371266
EAN: 9780062371263
Kindle: B00O7XOM5U
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Mystery Woman Sleuth
Therapist-turned-reluctant detective Jessica Mayhew is on the trail once again
in this smart, fast-paced novel of suspense from Charlotte Williams—author
of the debut The House on the Cliff—a tautly written psychological thriller
that ventures deep into the recesses of the mind. Jessica Mayhew has enough
problems without getting wrapped up in her patients’ drama. Her
separation from her husband doesn’t seem as amicable as she once
thought, and her daughters are drifting away as fast as they’re growing
up. But her new client—chic, moody, obsessive painter Elinor Powell—has a
way of drawing people in and soon Jessica’s getting involved with what
seems to be a most artful murder. Elinor presents a rare professional
challenge. She blames herself for keeping a valuable portrait in her studio,
where her mother was killed in an unsolved robbery. An attack of
claustrophobia is interfering with her work, as is her deepening paranoia
about her twin sister, Isobel, and her brother-in-law, Blake, a ruthless art
dealer. But when Jessica meets the entire unhappy family at the debut show of
Blake’s protégé—a reclusive ex-miner producing gloomy canvases in
the Black Mountains of southeast Wales—she starts to wonder whether Elinor
might be on to something. Might there be more to her mother’s death?
Could Blake have been involved? And just what’s going on in those lonely
hills? Set against the otherworldly Welsh countryside, Black Valley is a novel
rich in character, intrigue, and harrowing dangers.
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