No Cure for Love
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4.1 • 12 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
On the twentieth anniversary of No Cure for Love--Peter Robinson's classic, standalone noir mystery--comes this sharp repackage, which features an introduction by Michael Connelly.
You think you do not know who I am, but you do. They took you away and Seduced you and stole you from me, just as the others did before. They have tried to blot out your Memory of me... But everything is clear now...
At first, British TV star and recent Los Angeles transplant Sarah Broughton thinks the letters she has been receiving are from a typical fan--someone a little strange, perhaps, but harmless. But when her admirer--who identifies himself only as "M"--starts threatening Sarah and her loved ones, she turns to detectives Arvo Hughes and Maria Hernandez of the LAPD Threat Management Unit and experts in pursuing the most dangerous of stalkers. Pitted against a frighteningly twisted mind, the detectives test their expertise and experience to the limit in the desperate race to save Sarah's life.
Twisted, fast-paced, and suspenseful, No Cure for Love will have readers on the edge of their seats.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Originally published in Canada in 1995, this standalone feels dated, and given the absence of bestseller Robinson's beloved Inspector Banks (In the Dark Places, etc.), it may appeal only to the author's diehard fans. Most of the action takes place in Los Angeles, where British actress Sarah Broughton has found fame and fortune as a detective on an American TV show. Sarah has also attracted a stalker, who mails her letters with the usual delusional fantasies. But when the stalker refers to her by her real name (Sally), she starts to worry, and a studio exec calls in the LAPD's Threat Management Unit. Then Sarah finds a dismembered body on the beach near her Malibu home, and the hunt for the stalker takes on real urgency. Though the stalker antagonist is less a credible character than a plot device, readers will appreciate Robinson's fine storytelling and his authentic portrait of L.A., which Michael Connelly praises in his foreword.
Customer Reviews
Not good!
Reads like a bad movie. Not the caliber of writing I have grown to expect from Peter Robinson.