Hot Pursuit: A Gillian Adams Mystery (Gillian Adams Mysteries)

From BooklistKellys Gillian Adams has moved from Vancouver, British Columbia, to London to be with her lover, Scotland Yard Detective Edward Gisborne. The move allows her to renew her friendship with her friend Charlotte, a television producer. Unfortunately, Charlotte is drinking too much, and her daughter, actress Olivia, is in danger from a stalker. When Gillian finds Charlotte dead in her garden, the ensuing investigation uncovers many troubling secrets. Kellys wellwritten tale captures the vitality of contemporary London while making readers consider the meaning of friendship and trust. Fans of the series will want to keep up with Gillians latest adventure, but Kellys exploration of relationships raises some important social issues and will also appeal to readers of general fiction. The previous Gillian Adams novel, Old Wounds (1999), won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel from the Canadian Crime Writers Association. Barbara BibelCopyright American Library Association. All rights reservedProduct DescriptionA great city is a mirror reflecting everyones dreams and desperation. From Arthur Ellis Award winner Nora Kelly comes a powerful suspense story set in London.Gillian Adams has moved to London to live with policeman Edward Gisborne, her lover of many years. Feeling displaced, she seeks out her old friend Charlotte, once a brilliant television producer. But Charlotte is sunk in despair, and her daughter Olivia, a young actress, is fleeing from a disturbed fan who may be a dangerous stalker. London, on the brink of the new millennium, boils with traffic, money and a record heat wave. After Charlotte is found dead, events gather towards an explosive climax as Olivia confronts her pursuer and the terrible sequel to a hidden past. Complex characters, diamondsharp prose and a vivid sense of London old and new draw the reader into a novel of suspense in which love, obsession, tragedy and renewal are inextricably linked.From Publishers WeeklyIn Kellys fifth polished cozy to feature Canadian professor Gillian Adams (after Old Wounds, winner of the 1999 Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award), Gillian has moved from Vancouver to London to share a flat with her longtime lover, Edward Gisborne, a Scotland Yard Inspector. When our heroine looks up an old friend, Charlotte Douglas, whos been unwell since her husband left her years before, Gillian learns that Charlottes actress daughter, Olivia Bening, has just made her first major film. Unfortunately, a very disturbed young man, Kevin Brody, has been stalking Olivia. The astute reader will recognize the lad for a time bomb. Kevin takes an awfully long time to go off, but provides just about the only suspense, apart from Charlottes mysterious death in her garden. Otherwise, the plot proceeds by a series of chats. Charlotte and Olivia share a dark secret that is as predictable as most everything else in the novel. On the plus side, the author excels in giving us a feel for contemporary London during a heat wave (As stragglers from afterhours clubs fell from taxis into unmade beds, the mercury climbed, and the soft, dusky faces of terraces and warehouses hardened in the daylight), and her characters do have a solidity about them. One can believe Olivia is an actress and Kevin a mental case. And Kevins explosive finale is genuinely exciting. Kelly has a loyal following, and while this latest is not up to her usual high standard, her fans will look forward to it just the same.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.From Library JournalCanadian professor Gillian Adams has just moved to London to live with longtime lover Edward, a Scotland Yard inspector; here she reconnects with old friend Charlotte as well. Charlotte has changed, though; she seems lax, undemonstrative, and withdrawn perhaps because her exhusband has a young new wife and Charlottes starlet daughter has a fast life and an ominous stalker. But then Gillian discovers Charlottes dead bo