3.5
Lovers and Liars
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Just after New Year's, four small parcels are delivered to Paris, Venice, New York, and London. Photojournalist Pascal Lamartine is sent a woman's left-handed black leather glove. Reporter Gini Hunter receives a pair of handcuffs. They soon discover that the anonymous packages may be linked to a breaking sex scandal that could rock the world's political stage.
Who sent the packages, and why? As the dogged journalists delve into a sordid world of lies and deceit, call girls and secret trysts, Gini and Pascal rekindle their own passionate affair. The truth goes back farther than they imagine . . . to the other side of the world and a long-awaited revenge.
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3.5
“Gini is a journalist who is trying to follow in her dad's footsteps, and cover real and meaningful stories, but her editor keeps giving her trashy stories to cover. Then, she gets called in to work on an investigative piece about John Hawthorne, a politician who was thought to be the next American president, who very suddenly took a job in London as an ambassador for reasons unknown. John Hawthorne's wife has approached the newspaper to ask them to expose her husband in his sex scandals, putting a crack in the perfect public facade of their marriage.
Four packages are sent out by an anonymous sender: one to London, one to Paris, one to Venice, one to New York. Each with a strange item inside, one delivered to someone who is dead. What is the link?
Gini teams up with Pascal, a man from her past, to try and uncover the truth, but they have to contend with deadly threats and lies along the way, with lots of twists and turns.
This one was very long, and yet I enjoyed being wrapped up in it, and enjoyed taking my time with it. Gini was a bit of a dingbat, and I also just had to accepted some sexist parts of the story as being part of the 80s and 90s story telling. If you accept it for what it is: a scandalous, over the top sex scandal-solving 90s novel, then you'll have a good time with it.”
“Bought this 2nd hand. Started to read but got the feeling I had read it before.
100+ pages in and I gave up reading, as I knew I had read it before. Given the age of the book, it is highly likely that I read this when I was in my 20's.
DNF this time around.”
About Sally Beauman
Sally Beauman was born in Devon, England, and is a graduate of Cambridge University. She began her career as a critic and writer for
magazine and continued to write for leading periodicals in the US and the UK after returning to England. In 1970, she became the first recipient of the Catherine Pakenham Award for journalism, and at the age of twenty-four, was appointed editor of
magazine. Beauman has written for the
, the
and
, where she was arts editor.
Her novels, which include the
–bestselling sensation
, have been translated into over twenty languages and are bestsellers worldwide. In addition to her works of fiction, Beauman has published two nonfiction books based on the history and work of the Royal Shakespeare Company:
(edited by Beauman, with a foreword by His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, 1976), and
(1982).
Sally Beauman is married to the actor Alan Howard. They divide their time between London and a remote island in the Hebrides. They have one son and two grandchildren.
Other books by Sally Beauman
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