The April Competition [closed]
It may be a little late in the month, but it’s still April for a few more days, giving us enough time for one more competition…. three Bookdagger readers will win bundles featuring Mary Higgins Clark and Adam Creed.
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The Shadow of Your Smile, by Mary Higgins Clark
At age eighty-three and in failing health, Olivia Morrow knows she has little time left. The last of her line, she faces a momentous choice: expose a long-held family secret, or take it with her to her grave. Olivia has in her possession letters from her deceased cousin Catherine, a nun, now being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church. These letters reveal that, at the age of seventeen, Catherine gave birth to a son and gave him up for adoption and they identify the father as Alex Gannon, a world-famous doctor, scientist and inventor of medical patents.
Now, two generations later, thirty-one year old paediatrician, Dr. Monica Farrell, Catherine’s granddaughter, stands as the rightful heir to what remains of the Gannon family fortune. But in telling Monica who she really is and getting what is lawfully hers, Olivia would have to betray Catherine’s wishes and reveal the story behind Monica’s ancestry. As the pressure of Olivia’s impending choice weighs down on her, little does she realize that Alex Gannon’s grand-nephews – who are currently exploiting the Gannon inheritance to fund their profligate lifestyles – will stop at nothing to silence Olivia and prevent Monica from learning the secret, even murder.
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I Heard That Song Before, by Mary Higgins Clark
When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter’s first wife Grace, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Kay also discovers that Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares.
When the police arrive at her doorstep with a warrant for Peter’s arrest in connection with another murder – that of a woman Peter had escorted to a high school senior prom twenty-two years ago – Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer, and she resolves to find out the truth behind the puzzling deaths. But are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head every time she approaches the family chapel?
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Pain of Death, by Adam Creed
A woman is discovered beneath the London streets, barely alive. Soon after, DC Josie Chancellor finds an abandoned, newborn baby close to Leadengate station. DI Will Wagstaffe puts woman and baby together. The woman is Kerry Degg, a burlesque singer, as well as a rotten wife and mother. Kerry has bad friends, a dodgy husband and no idea about what it takes to build a family. As Kerry clings to life, Staffe hears only dischord: from a well-connected West London gangster and a forgotten politician; from a maligned sister and an unborn population to whom someone, somewhere, is determined to give voice.
Staffe ventures from Whitehall’s clubland to Soho’s fleshpots trying to make his way through a labyrinth of trails that leads above and below ground to another woman, seemingly forced - like Kerry Degg – to bear her child in captivity.
In Pain of Death, DI Will Wagstaffe discovers that the simplest thing in all the world – to bear a child - lies beneath the actions of the powerful and the desperate. And will he manage to rescue both mother and child in time?
To win, answer one simple question, the answer to which can be found here on Booknoir…
The Question:
Question 1: Who was the real Horace Silver?
No more submissions accepted at this time.Terms and conditions
- Closing date for entries: 7th May 2011.
- Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
- Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only. Anyone submitting multiple entries will be disqualified.
- The winners will be selected at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
- Only the winning entrants will be contacted by Booknoir. Our decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- The winner’s name(s) may be published on the Booknoir website after the closing date of the competition.
- The competition is not open to Booknoir employees and their families, or to employees of Booknoir publishers and their families.
April 28th, 2011 at 7:59 am
A worthy prize…