Into the Blue -Barnett 1

✍ Scribed by Goddard, Robert

• Book ID: 109018505
• Publisher: Delta
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 319 KB
• Series: Harry Barnett 1
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From Library Journal

Goddard's newest novel shows that even a middle-aged, frumpy man can become a hero. When Heather Mallender, English schoolteacher, disappears while sightseeing in Greece with Harry Barnett, Barnett must discover whether she disappeared voluntarily or was a victim of malice. In Hitchcockian tradition, the hero finds himself trapped in a web of intrigue that threatens not only his reputation, but also his life. Barnett's quest leads him from Greece to England and back, followed everywhere he goes, encountering suspicion and resistance at every turn. Everyone, it seems, has things to hide. Goddard's ( Painting the Darkness , LJ 9/1/89) elegant and gothic portrait of blackmail, deception, and death is hampered by its meandering pace and intricacy. Still, the novel is ultimately successful.
- Bettie Alston Spivey, Charlotte-Mecklenburg P.L.,
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

"Ultimate page-turner and late-night obsessive read."
--Rocky Mountain News

''A book that will push the edges of late night fatigue... had me utterly spellbound...cracking good entertainment."
--Washington Post

''Impossible to put down... Totally compels you from the first page to the last... a wonderful storyteller."
--Yorkshire Post

''A cracker, twisting, turning and exploding with real skill."
--Daily Mirror