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New York: Marble Arch Press, 2013. AF6 - An advance uncorrected proof paperback book in very good condition that has some light shelf wear. Set in the bleakness and confusion of post-WWII London, this gripping psychological thriller unravels the double life of a seemingly proper middle-class woman found strangled to death. 8.25"x5.5", 271 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
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On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a womanâÈçs body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife and mother who lived in a war-damaged terrace a few streets away.
The police assume that Lil must have been the victim of a vicious sexual assault; but the autopsy finds no evidence of rape, and Divisional Detective Inspector Jim Cooper turns his attention to her private life.
How did Lil come to be in the bomb site âÈ' a well-known loversâÈç haunt? If she had consensual sex, why was she strangled? Why was her husband seemingly unaware that she had failed to come home on the night she was killed?
In this gripping murder story, Siân Busby gradually peels away the veneer of stoicism and respectability to reveal the dark truths at the heart of postwar austerity Britain.
The police assume that Lil must have been the victim of a vicious sexual assault; but the autopsy finds no evidence of rape, and Divisional Detective Inspector Jim Cooper turns his attention to her private life.
How did Lil come to be in the bomb site âÈ' a well-known loversâÈç haunt? If she had consensual sex, why was she strangled? Why was her husband seemingly unaware that she had failed to come home on the night she was killed?
In this gripping murder story, Siân Busby gradually peels away the veneer of stoicism and respectability to reveal the dark truths at the heart of postwar austerity Britain.
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- Title A Commonplace Killing
- Author Busby, SiÃòn
- Binding Trade paperback
- Edition Original
- Pages 271
- Language EN
- Publisher Atria Books/Marble Arch Press, New York
- Date 2013-09-17
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9781476730295
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- Kirkus Best Fiction, 11/15/2013, Page 9
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2013, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 07/08/2013, Page 0
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