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Author Notes
She began her career writing mysteries, but with her last book, TRANSGRESSIONS (ReganBooks/HarperCollins), graduated to more ambitious, cutting-edge psychological thrillers. Three of her six books, including TRANSGRESSIONS, have been shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Edgar equivalent, the Golden Dagger award, and her third novel, FATLANDS, won the Silver Dagger. As a journalist and critic she has worked extensively in print, radio and television, where for many years she hosted her own show on BBC2. She has also edited two books of essays. Dunant lives in London with her family.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
The tough-as-nails young female sleuth who debuts here is London-based private eye Hannah Wolfe. Hired by an aging former dancer to find a lithe and pretty ballet prodigy who has gone missing, Hannah learns that young Carolyn Hamilton, whose nerves required Valium and whose tender ankles needed medication, has left a trail of impersonal postcards and some hefty credit-card debts. Hannah has barely begun to dig when Carolyn's body--which reveals that she was eight months pregnant--turns up in the Thames. The trail back to her drowning leads across the English Channel to a wealthy family and an old man close to death with no apparent heirs. A refreshing Londoner with an appealing softness under her slick, self-effacing surface, Hannah skirts cheap gumshoe patter. Everywhere she turns she sees youngsters, parents and those who want badly to become parents, and all of seem germane to her nicely resolved case and her awareness that the snooze button on her own biological clock isn't working as it used to. Dunant also wrote Snow Storms in a Hot Climate. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Smart, self-aware, witty, tough, and sexy Hannah Wolfe is a very capable British private eye who first appeared in Snow Storms in a Hot Climate [BKL N 15 88]. Back in London after a stint in Hong Kong, Wolfe takes on a missing-persons case. She's hired by an elderly woman who had become a surrogate mother to a talented young dancer, Carrie Hamilton. After a period of faithful, if long-distanced, communication, the London-based dancer had stopped writing. Efforts to contact her had been fruitless. Enter Hannah. Soon young Miss Hamilton is found. The bad news is she's dead and was eight months pregnant when she died. Hannah's investigation leads her from the dance companies of London to the doorstep of one of Europe's most powerful families. Anyone who enjoys the female sleuths of Paretsky, Grafton, Barnes, or Muller will thoroughly appreciate this British counterpart. ~--Wes Lukowsky
