East of Wild Goat Rocks - Couverture souple

Appleton, Barry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1628849819 ISBN 13 : 9781628849813

Editeur : Speedy Publishing LLC, 2013

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Elena Jones’ cardinal sin was to marry an Englishman. After being disowned by her parents and made an outcast from the Cypriot village where she was born, Elena swore she would never go back. The village, seemingly secluded from the outside world, was an EOKA stronghold in the late 1950’s. The inhabitants have bitter memories of atrocities by British soldiers; twenty graves in the cemetery bear witness to this, one being Elena’s uncle. Fifteen years later, happily married and living in Manchester, she is suddenly summoned to the island to identify the body of her husband who had been found on a deserted beach; executed by a shot to the back of the head. How he came to be in Cyprus is a complete mystery. From the moment Elena arrives on the island, a deadly game emerges played in many shades against the backdrop of a vibrant holiday destination and a village that exists in the past. She is immediately subject to surveillance by a number of people. The detective investigating the crime, an old boyfriend from her student days, and her brother, a not so pious priest whose sexual appetite is putting his marriage and career in jeopardy, are keen for her to leave the island immediately. Through their furtive actions and deceit Elena suspects a cover-up. She is determined to find her husband’s killers but comes up against a wall of silence. But, nothing is going to dissuade Elena from discovering the truth.

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� propos de l?auteur

An award winning writer with hundreds of hours of television drama to his credit, Barry Appleton was the principal writer on the long running and highly successful Thames Television police series The Bill. He has over sixty episodes to his name, including most of the original one hour episodes. During this time he was also commissioned to write a number of three hour TV films for Scottish Television’s series Taggart. His pedigree spans most of the popular crime and spy series in the 80s and 90s, such as Cats Eyes, Boon, Mr Palfrey of Westminster and many others. In 1993 he wrote Dark Secret, the Christmas Special for Yorkshire Television’s Circle of Deceit. In 1993, Barry won the Macallan award for Best Original Drama Serial for Taggart and was represented by William Morris for a number of years. Wishing to leave at the top and escape to the sun, Barry retired early to live in Cyprus where he wrote a number of plays for local theatres. He came out of retirement to write ‘Running Scared’, a screenplay for Town Film Co (Greece), in association with AB Seahorse Films (Cyprus), that won a highly competitive EU grant.

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