Death in the Garden
The Garden is a London enclave, home to best friends and busy career women Edwina, Cassie and Alice. The trio attends the wedding of Edwina's father to his second wife, where Edwina is preoccupied with thoughts of her pregnancy by a lover recently killed in an auto crash. But when the women gather after the reception, they discuss a more immediate subject: the fatal poisoning of another guest. Meanwhile, anonymous, menacing phone calls to Edwina increase, simultaneous with murderous attacks on her neighbors. The disturbances strain the women's friendship and, ultimately, the reader's patience, as repetitious details about dozens of unrealistic characters become confusing and irritating. When, at long last, the denouement comes, it's less a surprise than an anticlimax.
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    • Mar-1987
    • MacMillan
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0333437179
    • ISBN13: 9780333437179
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    • Feb-1988
    • Chivers
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0745106684
    • ISBN13: 9780745106687
    • Large Print



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