A nightmare is haunting Daisy Harker. Night after night she walks a strange cemetery in her dreams,until she comes to a grave that stops her in her tracks. It's Daisy's own,and according to the dates on the gravestone she's been dead for four years.What can this nightmare mean,and why is Daisy's husband so insistent that she forget it Driven to desperation,she hires a private investigator to reconstruct the day of her dream death. But as she pieces her past together,her present begins to fall apart...
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Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781782275732Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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Stunningly originalIn the whole of crime fiction's distinguished sisterhood,there is no one quite like Margaret MillarOne of the most original and vital voices in all of American crime fictionMarvellous... One of the best novels of psychological suspense I've readA torrid tale of sex and race... Millar continually blindsides the reader and the reveal on the last page is magnificent. Twenty-five years after her death Millar deserves to be much better knownMillar racks up the tension...The revelations are as powerful as a sock on the jawStands out as one of the best crime novels I've read and reviewed so far this year for its intricate,wonderfully disguised plot... Packed full of surprises,down to the very last stunning lineA pacy,gripping read with some vividly drawn characters and a twisty plotFeminist noir... hypnotic and elegant,a wonderful rediscovery which should have you racing to investigate her other booksFascinating... many twists and turns... Margaret Millar writes exceptionally well and reading her is a delight. Excellent stuff.An original master of the art which Gillian Flynn (amongst others) rebooted so beautifully... Hugely addictivePraise for Vanish in an InstantClever plot,sad characters and a powerful atmosphereA brilliant psychodrama that has a triple-whammy ending... exhilaratingCrime writing of a rare orderIt doesn't get more noir than thisRevived American classic from 1952 conjures up images from Edward Hopper paintings with characters that keep secrets from each other... The terse prose pushes the story along to a shock revealNo woman in twentieth-century American mystery writing is more important than Margaret MillarMrs Millar doesn't attract fans,she creates addictsVery originalShe has few peers,and no superior in the art of bamboozlementMillar was the master of the surprise endingA superbly plotted tale of murder and deceptionShe was a master of character,a genius of plot twists,and a superb stylist
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