Frances Fyfield: Blind Date (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
Elisabeth Kennedy is a complicated, prickly ex-police detective recovering from a brutal attack of deadly acid - and a woman who is determined to fight back. Unable to escape the memory of her sister's murder, Elisabeth flees the stiflingly safe confines of her mother's seaside home to return to her own precarious existence in an apartment high atop a crumbling London bell tower. In her self-imposed exile, she assumes she will be safe, anonymous. But even the most cloistered places are not sacrosanct - especially the human heart. As she tracks her quarry through a London peopled by the pathetic and the poisonous, Elizabeth is headed for something far more chilling than loneliness, more savage than self-doubt...

Frances Fyfield: Blind Date. Penguin; ISBN: 0140280529 (January, 2000), 360 p., $5.99.

Frances Fyfield: Blind Date (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
How do you make people love you? Emma Davey, who loved gemstones and life, found it easy. Everyone loved her. Until someone put a black bin liner over her head and kicked her to death.

For others, the quest is harder. Elisabeth Kennedy, Emma's older sister and a disgraced ex-police officer, considers herself beyond love or even self-respect. She is haunted by Emma's death and her own humiliating attempts to lure the killer into a confession. Then she is the victim of a senseless attack which adds physical scars to a fractured spirit.

Still convalescent, but wanting to hide from the world, she flees the comfort of her mother's seaside house for her own eccentric home. High in her disused London belltower, she will be safe and anonymous. But the safest places are not sacrosanct, especially the human heart, and the search for love, as well as revenge, goes on and on, like the search for hidden treasure. Elisabeth must find the courage to face a terror which is greater by far than loneliness...

Frances Fyfield: Blind Date. Corgi; ISBN: 0552145254 (February, 1999), 412 p., £5.99.

Frances Fyfield: Blind Date (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
The critics have been saying it for years: the skill with which Frances Fyfield builds suspense, and the intelligence of her writing have led to a reputation as the best crime writer at work today. Blind Date is her break-out book - a multi-layered, richly characterized novel, written on a broad canvas alive with menace and tension.

How do you make people love you? Emma Davey, who loved gem stones and life, found it easy. Everyone loved her, until someone put a bag over her head and beat her to death.

For others, the quest for love is harder. Elisabeth, Emma's sister and a disgraced ex-police officer, considers herself beyond love. Then she herself is the victim of a senseless attack and seeks refuge in her own eccentric home - a disused London belltower. But the safest places are not sacrosanct and Elisabeth must face a terror which is far greater than loneliness.

Frances Fyfield: Blind Date. Viking; ISBN: 0670878898 (September, 1998), 264 p., $21.95.