Synopsis
'Blackground deals with guilty secrets, greed, betrayal and murder. Joan Aiken knows her trade.' London Review of Books.
Cat Conwil is an actress on the brink of fame – will love be her saviour of her downfall?
Cat lands a starring role in a TV adaptation of Middlemarch shooting on location at the splendid Knoyle Court. There, she’s pursued by the estate’s...
Details
17 May 2018304 pages
9781509878734Imprint: Bello
Reviews
Aiken’s robust Blackground deals with guilty secrets, greed, betrayal and murder. Written with pace and confidence, it adroitly combines the genres of romance and thriller. Joan Aiken knows her trade, and that mystery and murder are what people want to take on holiday with them . . .London Review of Books
Several unexplained accidents begin to threaten her life, but the reader cottons on before Cat does and enjoys every minute of the denouement . . . Aiken has a fine sense of pacing and a sure ear for dialoguePublisher’s Weekly
Published as a crime novel this deftly combines the strengths of several genres from romance to gothic . . . the plot is intriguing and the writing consistently goodObserver
Rather as though Iris Murdoch had gone into partnership with Agatha ChristieFinancial Times
