· Overview. Set in the bleakness and confusion of post-WWII London, this gripping psychological thriller unravels the double life of a seemingly proper middle-class woman found strangled to death. On a damp July morning in , two schoolboys find a woman’s body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife and mother who lived in a war-damaged Brand: Atria Books/Marble Arch Press. Quotes by Siân Busby “To be curious about a thing you have to find something surprising in it, and I’m afraid that nothing surprises me any more.” ― Siân Busby, A Commonplace Killing/5. Siân Busby (Author) Format: Kindle Edition out of 5 stars ratings Set in the bleakness and confusion of post-WWII London, this gripping psychological thriller unravels the double life of a seemingly proper middle-class woman found strangled to death.4/5().
a commonplace killing by Siân Busby ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 17, A murder investigation centering on postwar London brings together two very different people in Busby's last novel. The events prior to the killing and the steps of the murder investigation are told simultaneously in author Siân Busby's last novel, A MONPLACE KILLING. The late author beautifully weaves the past and the present in such a manner you don't realize at first that the two events aren't taking place at the same time. Siân Busby:: Short Books. Siân Busby was an award winning writer, broadcaster and film maker. She published four books, including The Cruel Mother, a memoir of her great grandmother which won the MIND Book Award in ; and a novel, McNaughten, which was published to critical acclaim in Her last novel, A monplace Killing is out now.
On a damp July morning in , two schoolboys find a woman's body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife and mother who lived in a war-damaged terrace a few streets away. The police assume that Lil must have been the victim of a vicious sexual assault; but the autopsy finds no evidence of rape, and Divisional Detective Inspector Jim Cooper turns his attention to her private life. Siân Busby (Author) Format: Kindle Edition out of 5 stars ratings Set in the bleakness and confusion of post-WWII London, this gripping psychological thriller unravels the double life of a seemingly proper middle-class woman found strangled to death. Siân Busby’s second novel A Commonplace Killing, set in July , is about the sort of people who eked out their powdered egg with gobbets of Brideshead. It’s a book that would have sunk.
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