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Cliffhanger

Author
T J Middleton
Genre
Media
Book
Publisher
Picador
ISBN
9780330457507
Reviewer
Jayne

Synopsis
Al Greenwood lives in a bungalow by the sea. His passions, in no particular order, are his Vanden Plas motorcar; his well-kept caravan (perfect for assignations); and his two Koi carp. But for now Al has something more pressing on his mind. His wife, Audrey, has got too much, and Al wants her gone. But she is tenacious, despite his best efforts, and Al's nosey neighbours are also beginning to sniff around. There's Mrs. Poke Nose spying from the tree at the bottom of her garden; Kim the fisherman, catcher of the town's oldest lobster and lover of Miranda (also close to Al's heart); and, Detective Inspector Rump, whose instinct for human beings comes a poor second to his instinct for fish.And that's just for starters. How will Al evade his neighbours? Can he really orchestrate a cover-up of a cover-up? And what really happened that day on the cliff? "Cliffhanger" is a big ride through Little England, a thriller unlike any you will have read before, and a stunning debut from a wholly fresh and original new voice in crime fiction. Also available, only as an eBook, is "Cliffhanger": the Other Text, the first complete, unedited version. It has a number of differences - not the opening, that never changed, but the ending and some important bits in the middle.
Review

Cliffhanger really keeps you hanging on to the end, for what really happens in this book!  I loved it from the first page and enjoyed the characters and their partners with all the strange habits that people in little communities seem to gossip about in the community.

I was amazed how one simple simple question Al asks his wife Audrey - Let's go for a walk and blow the cobwebs away up on the cliff - sparks a whole set of crazy incidents arround the village, including the disappearance of his daughter - or did she disappear?

This book is clear and concise and has the typical village pace of life within the pages. I really enjoyed reading it and finding out how so many people within the cottages were hiding secrets from each other, especially from those who they were working with up at the  military camp. A book I thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend.

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