Flashback by
Jenny Siler
hbk out April 04
Published by Orion
at £9.99
A young American woman, Eve, has been found in a French field, unconscious and
amnesiac and has accepted the offer of shelter from nuns in a nearby convent. Time
passes and Eve settles into the routines of holy life content to have refuge from the
outside world. Then one night, while Eve is away, the convent is attacked and all the
occupants but one are massacred. The survivor tells Eve that the murderers, men in
camouflage, were looking for 'the American'. The only clue to Eve's past life is an
old Tangier/Algeciras ferry ticket and so she flees to the Moroccan port to begin the
hunt for her identity. The nuggets of information she unearths, the flashes of
memory, point to a disturbing and dangerous life and at every turn there are enemies.
What sort of person is she and what might she have done? Will knowing the truth be
bearable? Will she survive long enough to find out? In her fourth crime novel (Shot,
Easy Money and Iced are earlier titles) Siler successfully merges psychological
suspense and international thriller. The author herself has worked her way round the
world and the settings, whether North Africa or Paris, are sensuously depicted.
Adrenalin fuelled escapes from jeopardy coupled with Eve's roller-coaster emotional
ride give both excitement and satisfaction. Adventure with soul.
Manchester Evening News 24.4.04
(
Cath Staincliffe
author of the popular Sal Kilkenny mysteries set on the mean streets of Manchester)
Flashback by
Jenny Siler
