Killing Me Softly by Nicci French

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Penguin
Paperback : 02 Mar 2000
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Alice Loudon seems to have everything: close friends, a loving boyfriend, a successful career. Then one day she meets a stranger while crossing the street and - impulsively, immediately - abandons her old, safe life for a passionate affair. It leads her into a dark, dangerous realm of eroticism and extreme experience that both entices and alarms her.

Adam Tallis, heroic survivor of a disastrous mountaineering expedition, teaches her things about herself she never knew. As she learns more about her lover, she enters his world of risk and transgression - and begins to uncover a past filled with troubling secrets. But love and sexual obsession overwhelm her until they threaten everything: her safety, her sanity, and, finally, her life.

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Customer Review: 09 October 2002

Reviewer: Clara Beckworth

This book was a pleasure to read and very gripping as always with French's novels.

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"Cancel all appointments and unplug the phone. Once started, you will do nothing until you finish this thriller."
Harpers & Queen

"Thrillers claiming to be 'dark, erotic and compulsive' are two a penny. But this is the genuine article... not only a nail-biting read, but also has great insight into male and female desire, obsession, self-destructiveness and the wilder shores of love."
Daily Telegraph