Speak For The Dead
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Carrie Foster was still young when she started breaking the law.
Gordon Matthews had transgressed only once, but his crime was far more serious.
A pity Carrie didn't suspect anything when he proposed to her. But then, why should she? Gordon looked presentable now - and prison had given him time to invent a new past. Nicholas was different - a shy young man, eager to please - and to Carrie their affair began as an amusing diversion. A bit of harmless fun, and Nicholas need never know about her other life with Gordon. But there was something Carrie didn't know either . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Yorke invests her latest with the qualities that mark its 30 predecessors: well-defined characterizations and the ambience of British locales. If the author fails to succeed entirely here, she is nevertheless intriguing, creating a mystery about the union of a deceitful pair. In London, Gordon Matthews is freed after serving a minimum sentence for murdering his wife. Meeting pretty, seemingly innocent Carrie Foster, he tells her he is divorced, and she marries him. It's the case of a trickster tricked, for Carrie doesn't reveal her life as a prostitute. The couple settles down in suburbia where Carrie soon tired of her whining, jobless husband and goes back ``on the game.'' While traveling to London by train, she attracts Nicholas Fitzmaurice, a young student who becomes obsessed by her. Pretending she's single and in love with Nicholas, Carrie sneaks out on dates with him, thus setting the stage for a tragedy and the mystery's synthetic denouement. Events don't quite jell because of too many issues and actors: the bitter parents of Gordon's murdered first wife, his nasty mother and others. All psychologically sound and extremely interesting, they are mostly (alas) beside the point.
