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A fatal attachment

by Robert Barnard · 1992

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A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty. As old Lydia Perceval plans to destroy yet another group of impressionable young children’s love for their parents, the list of those who would have her die grows longer.

Genre
British mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisdetectivedetectiveMore like thisLess of thispolice proceduralpolice proceduralMore like thisLess of this
Themes
policepoliceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 281 pages

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