Past Mischief

By Clare Curzon

Book Overview

On Friday evening, Annette Briers is flattered to share a cab to Marylebone Station with her elegant and standoffish boss, Miranda Gregory. At the station, as they sit over coffee waiting for their train, Miranda becomes inexplicably shaken and insists that she return to the office. On Monday morning, Annette returns to work to find a very dead stranger seated at her boss's desk. As Detective-Superintendent Mike Yeadings and his team from the Thames Valley Police Force begin to investigate, it becomes clear that Miranda never reached her office on Friday. An unconscious hit-and-run victim in a suburban hospital is soon identified as the missing woman. The London force is brought in to work with Yeadings and his team as they search for the elusive link between the murder and the traffic accident. While Miranda, an orphan with no apparent leads to her past, hovers near death, a shadowy pattern of past evil and frustrated love emerges, confounding investigators. Was Miranda a martyr or a murderess?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373262566
• ISBN13: 9780373262564
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Worldwide Library
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 1.0" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

A novel that keeps you guessing till the very end.

Poor secretary Annette Briers has a tough time of it. Her boss leaves her at the train station and goes back to the office. When Annette goes into work the next day -- a dead stranger is in her bosses' chair and there are no clues to his identity. The mystery is who is the stranger and why did someone kill him, right? Not necessarily. Annette's boss, Miranda Gregory has a number of secrets in her past that no one can account for. Then Miranda is nearly killed by a hit-and-run driver. Coincidence? Hardly...A strange solution to this delimna keeps the adrenline flowing the the reader guessing till the very end. I think Clare Curzon will be a name that becomes extermely popular among us mystery readers.