Clare Layton
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Those Whom the Gods Love
Oxford: a young and promising student hangs himself, leaving his friends and family stunned. His girlfriend claims he raped her, but his friends can’t believe it.
Now they are all successful in their own fields, but each is still haunted by guilt. Only one of them knows the whole truth. But which one?
Enter Ginty Schell, a young, ambitious journalist working on a feature about how men have lost their way. She focuses on the notorious story and becomes the group’s Nemesis. As they fight to save their reputations, she finds her own life rocked to its foundations.
'A gripping psychological thriller writer' Ian Rankin
`A compelling psychological drama - raises some thoughtful points about society’s attitudes towards women who kill.’ The Times
`A tense and gripping thriller’ Mail on Sunday
Clutch Of Phantoms
Cass Evesham, female trader, has a shocking weekend. Her lover ends their affaire particularly brutally and the press besiege her with the news that the grandmother she thought dead is a famous murderess, just paroled.
Livia Claughton, now in a safe house under an assumed name, won't accept help from those who can't imagine the horror of 25 years in prison - long punishment for a very different crime from the one for which she was convicted.
Julia, actress daughter of a famous singer killed in her prime, is determined to restart her flagging career - and feed her hatred - by starring in a well publicised season of revenge plays.
All three women must come to terms with their pasts, their families and their future - and Cass above all must discover if violence is her genetic inheritance.
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Those Whom the Gods Love
(
2001)
HarperCollins Pbk Nov 01
Clutch Of Phantoms
(HarperCollins Pbk,
2000)
Those Whom the Gods Love
by Clare Layton
