Until Its Over
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Young and athletic, London cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck—for other people. First she is knocked off her bike accidentally by her neighbour Peggy Farrell, who is found soon after, bludgeoned to death in an alley. Then, a few days later, Astrid is asked to pick up a package from a wealthy woman called Ingrid de Soto, only to find the client murdered in the hall of her luxurious home. For the police it’s more than coincidence. For Astrid and her six housemates it’s the beginning of a nightmare: suspicious glances, bitter accusations, fallings out, and a growing fear that the worst is yet to come. Because if it’s true that bad luck comes in threes, who will be the next to die?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Narrated by buff, beautiful Astrid Bell, the first part of this engaging thriller from husband-wife writing team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French (Losing You) sets up the puzzle pieces, red herrings and all. Astrid shares a large decrepit London house with six roommates, who include a nondescript drifter, a lackadaisical drug dealer and a promiscuous lawyer. Hours after Astrid, a bike messenger, collides with a neighbor's car door on her way home, the neighbor is found dead in the first of what develops into a series of deaths to which Astrid is somehow linked. The second part snaps the picture together in a villain's how-I-did-it play-by-play. Despite this big half-time reveal, the suspense never falters perhaps due to the wise decision to leave the bad guy unsympathetic at every turn. Justice-hungry readers will enjoy watching the net constrict around the criminal. The unusual two-part construction injects freshness into an otherwise ordinary plot.
