Fish, blood and bone / Leslie Forbes
2000, First Edition. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. SIGNED by the author. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Price sticker on front cover. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages; Physical description: 384p. ; 22cm. Summary: Fish, Blood and Bone is Leslie Forbes' brilliant second novel. When Claire Fleetwood, a young American forensic photographer, inherits a large house and garden in London's East End from relatives she never knew she had, she imagines it will be a slice of the English dream. But after the brutal murder of her best friend Sally Rivers, Claire learns that her inheritance involves more than she wanted or bargained for. Desperate to find a motive for her friend's death, or at least someone to blame for the things that can befall ordinary people, Claire is impelled to join a scientific expedition led by her cousin Jack Ironstone, one of the men she suspects of being responsible for Sally's murder. Written with all the sophistication and intelligence that was so dazzling in Bombay Ice, in Fish, Blood and Bone Leslie Forbes weaves together a mysterious story of three families, a love affair and a series of murders into a wonderfully haunting novel about hidden pasts and forgotten crimes. Newspapers and magazines. Subjects: Americans - England - Fiction. Forensic pathology - Fiction. Scientific expeditions - India - Fiction. Item #209946
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