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The Drowning People

1999·340 pages

Crime Literary Fiction

A novel of romantic suspense among the English upper class, featuring two rich women and a violinist. The women are cousins involved in rivalry for a second man and for a castle. The second man is sidelined, the violinist sleeps with one cousin, marries the other and the result is murder. The violinist narrates.

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The Drowning People

Year

1999

Pages

340

Crime Literary Fiction Mystery Thriller

Description

A novel of romantic suspense among the English upper class, featuring two rich women and a violinist. The women are cousins involved in rivalry for a second man and for a castle. The second man is sidelined, the violinist sleeps with one cousin, marries the other and the result is murder. The violinist narrates.

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