Ian Rankin says; “Her knowledge of the working of the human mind – or more correctly the soul – is second to none.” And Minette Walters “Fyfield at her best is compelling, disturbing, but always elegant.”
This book was the winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie Gold Dagger and she has previously won both Gold and Silver Crime Writer’s Association Daggers. Frances Fyfield has spent much of her professional life practising as a criminal lawyer and this work has informed her highly acclaimed novels.
All that aside, the novel is warm, funny, sad and serious all mixed in together. It deals with love and family (not necessarily together) and loyalty, and is beautifully written. The world of art, both of accumulation for the collection’s sake and for investment, comes into it and then upon the death of the collector: greed and jealousy, lies and deceit. A jolly good read.
Catalogue link: Gold Digger
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