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Deadfall
Terrible dreams plague her sleep and physical changes in her body threaten Agatha's sanity unless she can solve the mystery of her past
223 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
148 books500 followersCynthia Harrod-Eagles (aka Emma Woodhouse, Elizabeth Bennett)
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on 13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy.
She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC.
She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 won the Young Writers' Award with The Waiting Game. The birth of the MORLAND DYNASTY series enabled Cynthia Harrod-Eagles to become a full-time writer in 1979. The series was originally intended to comprise twelve volumes, but it has proved so popular that it has now been extended to thirty-four.
In 1993 she won the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Novel of the Year Award with Emily, the third volume of her Kirov Saga, a trilogy set in nineteenth century Russia.
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on 13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy.
She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC.
She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 won the Young Writers' Award with The Waiting Game. The birth of the MORLAND DYNASTY series enabled Cynthia Harrod-Eagles to become a full-time writer in 1979. The series was originally intended to comprise twelve volumes, but it has proved so popular that it has now been extended to thirty-four.
In 1993 she won the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Novel of the Year Award with Emily, the third volume of her Kirov Saga, a trilogy set in nineteenth century Russia.
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November 27, 2011
Agatha can't figure out what's happening. She's getting blonde streaks in her hair; she's having nightmares; she's missing notes in the orchestra (she's a trumpeter), and her clothes, which used to be tight on her, now are getting loose. In the nightmares she's visited by a man whom she does not know but who wants her to love him and who makes love to her in a state which she thinks is real but from which she inevitably awakes although the apparition/ghost becomes more and more real as the weeks progress. . Gerry, one of her pupils (she had had an affair with his father years earlier but remains platonic with Gerry) finds an antique photograph with a picture of a man and it is Him, the man who has been coming to her in her dreams, but dreams which now leave evidence (semen) of someone having been there. Determined to discover what might be happening, she and Gerry, seek out her past. What had happened to her mother? Who was her father? Was any of it relevant? Is the capitalization of "Him" and "He" suppose to be significant. (Unless, of course, it's the horny ghost instead of the holy one.)
I'm not quite sure what to make of this book nor whether to classify it as a thriller, suspense, horror, or mystery. I suppose it's a combination of them. It was well-written -- I very much enjoyed some of Harrod-Eagles Detective Slider mysteries-- and it certainly was suspenseful. Since we see everything from Agatha's perspective, the reader is left wondering what's real or imagined, although the ending is inevitable and predictable by the time you reach the last fifth of the book.
At times I felt like assigned four stars; other moments only two, hence the three. I have no idea how it wound up in the Black Dagger Crime series since there appeared to be no crime.
I'm not quite sure what to make of this book nor whether to classify it as a thriller, suspense, horror, or mystery. I suppose it's a combination of them. It was well-written -- I very much enjoyed some of Harrod-Eagles Detective Slider mysteries-- and it certainly was suspenseful. Since we see everything from Agatha's perspective, the reader is left wondering what's real or imagined, although the ending is inevitable and predictable by the time you reach the last fifth of the book.
At times I felt like assigned four stars; other moments only two, hence the three. I have no idea how it wound up in the Black Dagger Crime series since there appeared to be no crime.
July 26, 2011
Really liked the main character and her friends, and the first half or so of the book was very good. Didn't like where she eventually took the plot - these characters deserved a better story!
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