Strangers
By (Author) Danuta Reah
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
2nd January 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
496
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 29mm
257g
Another haunting psychological thriller from Carla Banks, as the trade in people trafficking impacts on three disparate lives with shocking consequences.
Roisin Massey is a stranger in a strange land. An impulsive marriage has brought this young British lecturer to the forbidding city of Riyadh. Thankfully, she has the best guide possible: her new husband, Joe.
Joe knows Saudi well hes worked there as a doctor for years. But Roisin discovers her husband is keeping secrets from her about his time in the Desert Kingdom. Such as the drug thefts from his hospital. The friend he saw beheaded. The woman who fell to her death
Soon the ghosts from Joe's past come back to haunt them both and murder follows in their wake
Reviews for 'Strangers': 'Riyadh is a splendid location! Carla Banks manages to evoke the air of menace about the place, as well as its exoticism.' Daily Mail 'Shocking! not only lifts the veil on a world in which hostility lurks behind luxury! but on a relationship in which love has been replaced by fear.' Northern Echo Reviews for 'The Forest of Souls': 'A haunting legacy of war.' Frances Fyfield 'A powerful psychological thriller.' Daily Mail 'An intelligent, beautifully written thriller!compelling.' Andrew Taylor (author of 'The American Boy')
Danuta Reah lives in Sheffield with her artist husband. She currently works as an education consultant and as a university lecturer in English language. She is a fan of comics and graphic novels, and in her spare time draws cartoons which have appeared in textbooks and at scientific conferences. She has published textbooks for English Language students. She also writes as Carla Banks. Only Darkness is her first novel.