In Your Face by Scarlett Thomas

In Your Face by Scarlett Thomas

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Summary

Lily gets a call from her old friend Jess, a journalist selling true-life stories to a magazine. She has written a feature about three women who were stalked. They have now all been murdered and Jess is in the frame. Then she disappears, leaving behind a mysterious message that Lily must decipher.

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In Your Face by Scarlett Thomas

Lily Pascale gets a phone call out of the blue from her old friend Jess, a journalist selling true-life stories to a magazine. She has written a feature about three women who were stalked and now, on the day of publication, they've all been found murdered. She's in the frame and she needs a friend. Lily has her own reasons for wanting to escape from Devon, so she's on the next train to London. But when she gets there, Jess has gone. Where is Jess And what is the meaning of the mysterious message she left In order to find out, Lily has to begin picking her way through a confusing world of liars, cheats and charlatans. But who's telling the truth With the help of young artist Jon, tabloid hack Sarah and her father's girlfriend Star, Lily is about to find out...
Page-turner? That's an understatement - Company magazine

Scarlett Thomas tips Miss Marple out of her bathchair and nicks Inspector Morse's Zimmer frameWho said crime can't be fun? - The Mirror

A nail-biting triumph . . . Smart, strong and self-reliant, Lily is irresistible - Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

Lily Pascale is . . .a sassy character full of contemporary hipness and uncurbable curiosity . . . Classic investigation with the right dash of modernity - Time Out
Scarlett Thomas is twenty-six and lives in Devon. She is a journalist and writer. Her first Lily Pascale novel, DEAD CLEVER, is available in New English Library paperback.
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ISBN 13 9780340718360
ISBN 10 0340718366
Title In Your Face
Author Scarlett Thomas
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Year published 1999-10-21
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.