Judgement of Strangers'Complex, with lots of sinister implications! moves the traditional crime novel on to some deeper level of exploration' Jane Jakeman, Independent It is 1970. David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a darker future, brings home a new wife to Roth. Throughout the summer, the consequences of the marriage reverberate through a village now submerged in a sprawling London suburb. Blinded by lust, Byfield is oblivious to the dangers that

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when his case starts to fall apart and neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem

but gets results

Charles Bock mixes incandescent prose with devious humour to capture Las Vegas with unprecedented scope and nuance and to provide a glimpse into a microcosm of modern America

but the pressure to perform suffocated him

with a view to returning a key he has been given and gets caught up in helping Prince Karl of Moldavia (also known as Charles Zarrill) when agents from behind the Iron Curtain try to kill him

as he stood in the living room of the girl's grieving parents

entering a dead-end alley

the characters are as substantial as a down home breakfast of biscuits and ham with red-eye gravy

Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh University student who vanished from her own doorstep

and not long after that a young woman drowns near to Sir John's home