Nights in White Satin by
Michelle Spring
pbk out June 00
(Orion)
at £5.99
Cambridge private eye Laura Principal loves her job. Especially when setting up the security for the May Ball at St John's College means that she gets to savour the atmosphere of the most glamorous night of the year. But the sweet June night turns sour when Katie Arkwright, angelic with blonde curls and white satin, leaves early, only to disappear without
trace.
Because Cambridge colleges hate scandal, Laura is hired to find Katie. And as she uncovers a secret life that is far from angelic, a senior academic is found battered to death in his college room. Drawn inextricably into the murder investigation, Laura finds her own emotions torn in two. To understand a crime whose tentacles clutch at the past, Laura must push
herself to the very limit.
From the rarefied enclaves of Cambridge colleges to the mean streets of London's Kings Cross, Laura embarks on a journey whose end means that
several lives can never be the same again. Wide-ranging, intriguing and illuminating, Nights in White Satin reveals Michelle Spring as a writer who keeps getting better.
(
Val McDermid
- Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill)
Nights in White Satin by
Michelle Spring