A Shroud for Delilah - Fraser, Anthea
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'A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read' - Booklist Kate Romilly left her old life behind when she left her unfaithful husband. Moving to the small town of Broadminster with her young son was a fresh start. Closer to her best friend, with a good job, a new flat, it was a chance to start again. But a killer is attacking divorcees... At the scene of each crime, the name 'Delilah' is scrawled in lipstick on the victim's mirror. The danger is coming closer to home. Kate starts receiving strange 'gifts', a dead pigeon, a dismembered moth - she fears she may be the next target... Chief…mehr

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'A superbly crafted, riveting, page-turner of a read' - Booklist Kate Romilly left her old life behind when she left her unfaithful husband. Moving to the small town of Broadminster with her young son was a fresh start. Closer to her best friend, with a good job, a new flat, it was a chance to start again. But a killer is attacking divorcees... At the scene of each crime, the name 'Delilah' is scrawled in lipstick on the victim's mirror. The danger is coming closer to home. Kate starts receiving strange 'gifts', a dead pigeon, a dismembered moth - she fears she may be the next target... Chief Inspector Webb and Sergeant Jackson are in a race against time to unravel this seemingly impossible mystery and find the culprit before the next dead body found is Kate Romilly's. A Shroud for Delilah is a fast-paced crime novel featuring Anthea Fraser's popular detective David Webb.Praise for Anthea Fraser: 'Fraser is her dependable elegant, guileful self, withholding the killer's identity till a dying fall' - Sunday Times 'A well-mannered, well-plotted and well-told story' - Birmingham Post 'Sympathetic, well-executed book, in which full attention is paid to human feelings and failings' - Yorkshire Post Anthea Fraser has written all her life but did not begin to take it seriously until after marriage, when she found herself at home with two small daughters and embarked on a correspondence course with the London School of Journalism. She wrote short stories before turning to novels of the supernatural, and then to crime. Her other books include Pretty Maids all in a Row, Eleven Who Went Up to Heaven, The Ten Commandments, The Seven Stars and One is One and All Alone.
Autorenporträt
Anthea Mary Fraser (born 1930) is a novelist. Her mother was a published novelist and Anthea began composing poems and stories before she could write. At the age of five she announced that she wanted to be an author. However, despite having been a prolific writer in school, she did not become a professional writer until after her two daughters were born. Her first professional publications were short stories. Her first novel was published in 1970. Her first significant success was with her 1974 novel Laura Possessed, which had a paranormal theme, and was followed by 6 other similarly themed novels. She then wrote some romantic suspense stories before turning to writing crime fiction.