The Cruelty Of Morning

The Cruelty Of Morning

Summary

A twenty-five-year-old murder, a missing girl, and fatal attraction in a small seaside town...

On a sunny Sunday in 1970, in the Devon resort of Pelham Bay, teenager Jennifer Stone discovers the corpse of a woman in the sparkling summer sea. It is an event that is to shape her destiny and that of Mark Piddle, the young reporter called to the scene, for the next twenty-five years; until the intense tragedy is resolved and a long-buried mystery comes to light.

The Cruelty of Morning is a tale of dangerous obsessions, small town secrets and a destructive, mesmerising love-affair.

About the author

Hilary Bonner

Hilary Bonner is a former showbusiness editor of the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mirror. She now lives in Somerset and continues to work as a freelance journalist, covering film, television and theatre. She is the author of three previous novels, The Cruelty of Morning, A Fancy to Kill For and A Passion So Deadly.
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