William Adams was a killer. But he had not been convicted for murder. He had never confessed, even when convicted of rape and criminal assault. Nor had he admitted to other attacks upon women. He felt no remorse, no pity for his victims. He despised them. Now he was free, his sentence served in full, subject to no supervisory control. He had some money in a building society. He could assume a new identity and disappear. At a quiet guest-house on the outskirts of a country town, Adams recognises someone from his past, someone also staying there under an assumed name, someone who must have recognised him. From this chance encounter, a nightmarish chain of events is set in motion and the lives of a number of people who should have been immune from threat and blackmail, fear and violence are profoundly changed. Margaret Yorke's gifts as a writer have received sustained praise since her first book was published in 1957. A Small Deceit demonstrates again how she has extended the range of the crime novel.

Crime Murder Fiction