Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good (UK 2019)

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Sarah Fortune is happy to be sorting out the inheritance problems of the Pardoes, as it promises to distance her from a claustrophobic relationship with Malcolm Cook, and she cannot bear to be a captive.

But she soon discovers that guilt, insecurity, unrequited love and a touch of insanity afflict the Pardoes and the seaside town where they live in Norfolk - all a legacy of a suicide of two years before, when a beautiful woman walked into the sea and never came back. And there is another element of the legacy, a white-haired figure some call a ghost and others call a vagrant who roams the beach and harmlessly haunts the town: until he insinuates himself into the power struggles of the Pardoe children and becomes the mysterious and cunning enemy of all concerned.

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good. Sphere, ISBN: 9780751573695 (February, 2019), 314 p., £7.99.

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good (USA 2014)

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Family fights, suicides, sirens, death, and even a ghost. Everything happens here...
Attorney Sarah Fortune is dispatched to a small coastal town to straighten out the financial affairs of the eccentric Pardoe family. The three siblings and their mother, who is suffering from dementia, own most of Merton on Sea. The business of the estate should be simple enough, and Sarah sees the job as an opportunity for a mini-vacation -- a chance to get out of the city.

But she soon discovers that the family, and the town itself, are afflicted by a past filled with guilt, pain, and unrequited love. Most haunting of all, though, is the legacy of a suicide that took place two years ago, when a beautiful woman with an uncanny resemblance to Sarah walked into the sea and never came back...

Fans of Ruth Rendell and Julia Spencer-Fleming will love this atmospheric psychological thriller.

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good. A Sarah Fortune Mystery. Witness Impulse / HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780062301345 (February, 2014), eBook, 545 KB (ca. 320 p.), $2.99.

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good (UK 2003)

From the Publisher:
When Sarah Fortune, with her impeccable qualifications and chequered history, is sent to a small seaside town in Norfolk, she goes willingly. Sorting out the inheritance problems of the Pardoes, Merton-on-Sea's premier family, promises to distance her from a claustrophobic relationship with Malcolm Cook. Sarah cannot bear to be a captive.

But she soon discovers that guilt, insecurity, unrequited love and a touch of insanity afflict the Pardoes and the town, the legacy of a suicide that took place two years before, when Elizabeth Tysall, a beautiful woman with an uncanny resemblance to Sarah herself, walked into the sea and never came back...

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good. A Sarah Fortune Novel. Time Warner Paperbacks, ISBN: 0751534315 (September, 2003), 314 p., £6.99.

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good (USA 2000)

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Sarah Fortune's name belies her recent life. A beautiful red-haired attorney, she's still recovering from the macabre attack of a now-deceased client, Charles Tysall, who became obsessed with her. Now the senior partner in her firm has asked her to travel to the seaside town of Merton to sort out a legacy left to the feuding Pardoe family. It is the town where Tysall spent his holidays.

Sarah arrives in Merton to find that her clients consist of a dotty matriarch, two brothers (one nasty and one industrious), and a daughter sadly in search of self-esteem. And along a quay studded with cheap amusements and fish-and-chip wrappers lurks a ghost, a phantom who may be more dangerous than any flesh-and-blood villain...

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good. Penguin, ISBN: 0140291954 (August, 2000), 246 p., $5.99.

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good (USA 1995)

From the Publisher:
Sarah Fortune's name belies her recent life. A beautiful red-haired attorney, she's still recovering from the macabre attack of a now-deceased client, Charles Tysall, who became obsessed with her. The scars on her creamy skin have healed but will never disappear. Now the senior partner in her firm has asked her to travel to the seaside town of Merton to sort out a legacy left to the feuding Pardoe family. It is the same town where Tysall spent her summer holidays.

Sarah arrives in Merton to find that her clients consist of a dotty matriarch, two brothers (one nasty and one industrious), and a daughter sadly in search of self-esteem. And along a quay studded with cheap amusements and fish-and-chip wrappers lurks a ghost, a phantom who may be more dangerous than any flesh-and-blood villain...

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good. Ballantine, ISBN: 034538279X (April, 1995), 265 p., $5.99.

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
When Sarah Fortune, with her impeccable qualifications and chequered history, is sent to a small seaside town in Norfolk, she goes willingly. Sorting out the inheritance problems of the Pardoes, Merton-on-Sea's premier family, promises to distance her from a claustrophobic relationship with Malcolm Cook. Sarah cannot bear to be a captive. But she soon discovers that guilt, insecurity, unrequited love and a touch of insanity afflict the Pardoes and the town, the legacy of a suicide which took place two years before, when Elizabeth Tysall, a beautiful woman with an uncanny resemblance to Sarah herself, walked into the sea and never came back. More immediately, Merton chooses to ignore another part of the legacy, the white-haired figure some call a ghost and others call a vagrant who roams the beach and haunts the town, harmlessly. Until he insinuates himself into the power struggles of the Pardoe children and becomes the mysterious and cunning enemy of all concerned. Sarah Fortune, first encountered in Shadows on the Mirror, is one of Frances Fyfield's most spirited characters. In Perfectly Pure and Good she confronts the pain of her past while making others forge their futures.

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good. Corgi Books, ISBN: 0552141747 (November, 1994), 284 p., £4.99.

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
When red-haired Sarah Fortune, with her impeccable qualifications and chequered history, is sent to a small seaside town in Norfolk, she {g0cs willingly. Sorting out the inheritance problems of the Pardoes, Merton-on-Sea's premier family, promises to distance her from a loving. but over-whelming relationship with Malcolm Cook. Sarah cannot bear to be a captive.

But she soon discovers that the inhabitants of Merton, the Pardoes in particular, have more problems than just an ambiguously worded will Guile, insecurity, unrequited love and a touch of insanity aflict the family and the town, the legacy ofa suicide which took place two years before, when Elisabeth Tysall, a beautiful woman with an uncanny resemblance to Sarah herself, walked into the sea and never came back.

More immediately, Merton chooses to ignore another part of the same legacy, the white-haired figure some call a ghost and others call a vagrant who roams the beach and haunts the town, harmlessly. Until he insinuates himself into the power struggles of the Pardoe children and becomes the mysterious and cunning enemy of all concerned.

Generous but secretive Sarah Fortune, first encountered in Shadows on the Mirror, is one of Frances Fyfield's most spirited characters. In Perfectly Pure and Good, using her own inimitable style, she confronts the pain of her past and, at the same time, makes others forge their futures.

Frances Fyfield: Perfectly Pure and Good. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0593035313 (March, 1994), 207 p., £14.99 (?).