Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play (USA 2014)

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This sophisticated, psychologically gripping tale about crimes of the most twisted passion is perfect for fans of Linda Fairstein and Patricia Highsmith.

The odd, vaguely menacing little man called Mr. Logo is a familiar figure in the old court building in London. Although frequently brought before the judge for indecent assault, he is invariably acquitted due to lack of evidence. He is especially familiar to Helen West, the take-no-prisoners lawyer who has just failed for the fifth time to convict him. Now he is off-limits to her until his next appearance in court. Yet when she befriends Rose, the young, compulsively secretive, and promiscuous clerk in her office, Helen unwittingly sets in motion events that will dangerously complicate her connection to Mr. Logo and push his rage and dark passion to lethal extremes.

Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play. A Helen West Mystery. Witness Impulse / HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780062301437 (March, 2014), eBook, 453 KB (ca. 288 p.), $2.99.

Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play (UK 2012)

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Mr Logo is a familiar figure in the courts, frequently accused of indecent assault, but invariably acquitted due to lack of evidence. He is frustratingly familiar to the Crown Prosecutor Helen West, who again has just failed to prosecute him. This isn't the only set-back in her life: her long-term relationship with Geoffrey Bailey is even more brittle, and she has to deal with the insubordination of her office clerk, which unwittingly sets in motion events which push Mr Logo's rage and dark passion to lethal extremes.

Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play. Sphere, ISBN: 9781405520522 (October, 2012), eBook, 0.44 MB (ca. 288 p.), £7.00.

Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play (USA 1999)

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"Fyfield is a splendidly accomplished novelist... If you haven't yet sampled this fine writer's books, start here." -- CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The odd, vaguely menacing little man called Mr. Logo is a familiar figure in the old court building in London. Although he is frequently brought before the magistrate for indecent assault, he is invariably acquitted due to lack of evidence. He is especially familiar to Helen West, the Crown Prosecutor who has failed to prosecute him for the fifth time. Now, he's off-limits to her until his next court appearance. Yet, when she befriends Rose, the young, compulsively secretive and promiscuous clerk in the office, Helen unwittingly sets in motion events that will dangerously complicate her connection to Mr. Logo and push his rage and dark passion to lethal extremes. Shadow Play is a sophisticated. psychologically gripping tale about crimes of the most twisted passions.

"There are crime writers whom we think of primarily as novelists... who provide the psychological subtlety, intelligence, and excellent writing which are the hallmark of first-class fiction. There is no one higher on this list than Frances Fyfield." P.D. James

Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play. Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140286837 (December, 1999), 277 p., $5.99.

Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play (USA 1994)

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Crown Prosecutor Helen West is doubly frustrated. Her lover, Geoffrey Bailey, is off to a police education course, with weekend visits only a slight possibility. And she has just failed for the fifth time to convict a menacing little man called Logo. Brought before the magistrate for trying to lure young girls to the cemetery, Logo blames all his troubles on the daughter: who ran away four years before. If she returned, he could stop chasing the others.

Until Logo misbehaves again and Geoffrey returns, Helen can just stew. Or she can strike up an unlikely friendship with Rose, a smart office clerk who has slept with most of the young constables in the area. Tart-tongued Rose lets down her guard for Helen. But neither one, of them is prepared for the terror just around the corner in Rose's life...

Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345385071 (May, 1994), 277 p., $5.99.

Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play (UK 1994)

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Crown Prosecutor Helen West couldn't make up her mind about Mr Logo. Was he a threat to society or simply a poor soul with nothing left to lose? That he was seedy, repellent and slightly sinister she knew only too well. She was also frustrated by his continual ability to avoid conviction for a succession of petty but deliberate crimes.

Still smarting from Logo's most recent acquittal, Helen has more pressing concerns. Professionally she must contend with the archaic office building, its politics and its romances and also the embarrassing insubordination of Rose Darvey, whose teenage cynicism and promiscuity are the disguise of a terrified child. Helen must also face the fact of the brittle nature of her long-term relationship with senior policeman Geoffrey Bailey.

But she barely has time to cross-examine her feelings before she is swept up by the lives of others, pulled to the centre of a maze of violence and fear where Logo and his grubby world somehow divide and rule.

Once more West and Bailey are brought together to fight their own personal demons. Only this time, they are fighting for survival too.

Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play. Corgi Books, ISBN: 0552140430 (March, 1994), 284 p., £4.99.

Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play (USA 1993)

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In the six years since her first novel, A Question of Guilt, was nominated for the Edgar Award, Frances Fyfield has proved herself a master of the crime novel again and again with such books as Shadows on the Mirror, Not That Kind of Place, and The Play Room. On both sides of the Atlantic she has been consistently singled out by reviewers for the style and intelligence of her novels, the complexity of her characters, and the taut suspense of her plots.

Now, with Shadow Play, Fyfield gives us her best novel yet: a sophisticated, chilling, psychologically gripping tale about crimes of the most twisted passions. The odd, vaguely menacing little man called Mr. Logo is a familiar figure in the old court building in London. Frequently brought before the magistrate for indecent assault, he is invariably acquitted; he may scare the dark-haired, dark-eyed little girls he follows, but nobody can prove that he actually touches them. So he is allowed to return to his everyday life -- a life fueled solely by his blinding obsession with the daughter who ran away from him four years before: "It was all her fault. Everything. She had been his nemesis from the start, the black-eyed angel he had loved so much. Find her... and bring her home before the cancer of her loss affected all the extremities of his life and limbs. Love or revenge: either would do."

Mr. Logo is especially familiar to Helen West, the Crown Prosecutor who has just failed for the fifth time to make good her prosecution of him. He is off-limits to her now until his next, certain, appearance in court. Yet when she strikes up an unlikely friendship wich Rose, the young, compulsively secretive, and promiscuous clerk in her office, Helen West unwittingly sets in motion events that will not only dangerously complicate and personalize her connection to Mr. Logo, but also push his rage and dark passion toward unconstrollable and even lethal extremes.

Frances Fyfield: Shadow Play. Pantheon Books, ISBN: 0679424024 (May, 1993), 284 p., $18.00.