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The Breaker
Twelve hours after Kate Sumner's broken body is washed up on
a deserted beach on the south coast of England, her traumatized three-year-old
daughter is discovered twenty miles awa walking the streets of Poole,
alone. The police are puzzled.
Why weren't mother and daughter together? Why was Kate killed and her
daughter allowed to live? More curiously, why had Kate boarded a boat
- apparently willingly - when she was scared stiff of drowning at sea?
Who had tempted her to her death?
The police suspect a young actor, a loner with an appetite for pornography,
who lies about his relationship with Kate and whose sailing boat, Crazy
Daze, is moored just yards from where the toddler is found...
As the investigation proceeds, the police discover a gaping hole in Kate's
husband's alibi. Was he really in Liverpool at a conference the night
she died? Was Kate the 'respectable woman' he claims?
And why does their daughter scream in terror every time he tries to pick
her up?
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'The multilayered
plot becomes increasingly tense and exciting as each compassionately
drawn character sheds his or her first skin to reveal the second
and sometimes the third, while a deliciously reserved romance
forms the sub-plot. Walters is on fine form with a gorgeous
cast of contemporary eccentrics and her own inimitable style.'
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| The Mail on Sunday |
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