JANE HILL

Grievous Angel 

 

"Playful and poignant, sexy and sinister, Hill's darkly comedic portrait of a woman scorned packs a captivating surprise." - Booklist

"A nail-biting thriller with a great twist." - Cosmopolitan

"This imaginative and luminous novel is both sorrowfully tragic and darkly humorous." - New Mystery Reader

"A sparkling, funny and scary thriller....  I loved the narrative voice, which is both witty and faintly unhinged... you'll see why when you read the book." - Adele Geras

 

LOVE, LIES AND THE DEADLY POWER OF BETRAYAL

When Justine Fraser found herself on an exchange programme in America, she had no idea that the quirky Nicky Bennet - a brief, steamy fling - would, years later, turn out to be one of Hollywood's biggest heart-throbs.  Sexy, moody, outrageous, Nicky is to die for, and when he goes missing, his enigmatic suicide note spins the media into a frenzy. 

When Justine sees the note in the paper, she immediately knows that it is the one clue to solving the mystery of his sudden disappearance.  Slowly piecing together the fragments of Nicky's life, she sets out on a road that can only lead to betrayal, violence and revenge, discovering that the man she is looking for might turn out to be an entirely different person from the one she fell in love with...

 

HOW I WROTE GRIEVOUS ANGEL

Grievous Angel is my first novel, and it's about the relationship you just can't let go of; the first love, or the first big love; the one that got away.  It's about a woman who can't forget her first serious lover because his face is plastered across posters and in magazines - her ex-boyfriend Nicky Bennet is now a famous film star.

Part of the book is set at a fictional American university, drawing on my own experience of an exchange term at the Ivy League Dartmouth College - there's no Nicky Bennet in my past, though.  The title comes from a song by Gram Parsons, considered by many to be the godfather of country rock.

In writing the book I drew on my love of American roadtrips.  The narrator finds herself on the trail of Nicky Bennet, through the evocative desert landscapes of the Southwestern US.

LINKS 

Dartmouth College - more about the Ivy League university

Gram Parsons - find out about the country rock legend whose music plays an important part.

 

Grievous Angel is published in the UK by Arrow Paperbacks and in the US by William Morrow.  It's also published by De Boekerij in the Netherlands as Sluimerend Verleden.

To buy a copy of the UK paperback click on the cover. 

To buy a copy of the US paperback click on the cover. 
 
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