Borrowed Time

By: Robert Goddard

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Paperback | 31 January 2006

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432 Pages

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23.1 x 15.6 x 2.5

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It is a golden evening of high summer. Walking a ridge on the Welsh Borders, Robin Timariot meets by chance an elegant middle-aged woman who seems strangely out of place. They exchange only a few words, but those words prove to be unforgettable. A few days later Timariot learns from the newpapers that, just hours after their meeting, the woman was raped and murdered.
A man is swiftly charged and convicted of the crime, but a string of inexplicable events begins to convince Timariot that all is not what it seems. Fascinated by the dead woman's memory, he is sucked into the complex motives and tortured relationships of her family and friends, searching against his better judgemnt for the secret of what really happened the day she died.
The closer he gets to the truth, the more hideous and uncertain it seems to be. And far too late he realizes that anybody who uncovers it is unlikely to be allowed to live.

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"Goddard writes in measured, graceful strokes that seductively charm the reader--first with an amicable grip, then with an inexorable clench.... An elegant mix of secrets, deceits and slowly unfolding horrors. His characters, curiously one-dimensional on first inspection, quickly turn into accordions of personality and behavior."--Publishers Weekly "A thriller in the classic storytelling sense...hughely enjoyable"--Times

"An atmosphere of taut menace...suspense is heightened by shadows of betrayal and revenge"--Daily Telegraph

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