The Hitch-hiker by Margaret Astbury

The Hitch-hiker by Margaret Astbury

Philip Bartley stops to pick up a hitch-hiker one rainy night, hoping for sexual favours in return. But when the car crashes into a hedge, the slender, blonde figure with the seductive tongue is nowhere to be seen...Reverend Peter Darley has a mortal sin on his conscience, and as he struggles with his faith, he finds that even the church cannot provide sanctuary from his impure thoughts...A whiff of perfume, a pair of hyacinth blue eyes are oddly familiar to James Connor. Will they cause the Deputy Police Commissioner to lose his head? That is just the beginning. There are three men with one woman in common. Now that woman, Anna, is dead. Her lover Richard Torrey is determined to get at the bottom of her brutal murder and bring her killers to justice. But his investigations, helped by journalist Kate Mallory and Inspector Bruce Daniels, are hampered by a

'This story of love, hate and revenge will set fans' pulses racing' Peterborough Evening Telegraph on A Love Forbidden 2 'Many a drama to keep you turning the pagesJust right for lovers of Catherine Cookson' Bolton Evening News on A Promise Given 3 'Many bitter tears are shed' Books Magazine on Bitter Seed 5 'Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands.' Peter Pannett, Guernsey Evening Post"

Meg Hutchinson left school at fifteen and didn't return to education until she was thirty-three, when she entered Teacher Training College and studied for her degree in the evenings. Telling stories and writing compositions have been part of Meg's life since a child and she now indulges this passion in a little cottage in Shropshire.

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ISBN 13	9780340792933
ISBN 10	0340792930
Title	The Hitch-hiker
Author	Margaret Astbury
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2001-04-05
Number of pages	380
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