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Sight Unseen

by Robert Goddard
$12.90 Now $8.90 Save 31%
Sight Unseen
Sight Unseen

Mystery unfolds; abduction shatters a peaceful village.

If you enjoy a heart-racing thriller that won't let you rest until you've turned the last page, "Sight Unseen" might just be your next favorite. Robert Goddard meticulously crafts a tense narrative that begins with an innocent scene slipping into an unforeseen nightmare. The quiet tension that stealthily builds in this small tourist village will keep you on edge, pondering the motives and moves of every character introduced.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Sight Unseen

by Robert Goddard
$12.90 Now $8.90 Save 31%
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ISBN: 9780552152105
Author: Robert Goddard
Publisher: Corgi
Date of Publication: 2005-12-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Drama, Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Related Topics: Crime, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery
Goodreads rating: 3.83
(rated by 2215 readers)

Description

Another classic mystery from the “master of the clever twist.” On a summer’s day in 1981, a two-year-old girl, Tamsin Hall, was abducted during a picnic at the famous prehistoric site of Avebury in Wiltshire. Her seven-year-old sister Miranda was knocked down and killed by the abductor’s van. The girls were in the care of their nanny, Sally Wilkinson. One of the witnesses to this tragic event was David Umber, a Ph.D. student who was waiting at the village pub to keep an appointment with a man called Griffith who claimed he could help Umber with his researches into the letters of “Junius,” the pseudonymous eighteenth-century polemicist who was his Ph.D. subject. But Griffith failed to show up, and Umber never heard from him again. The two-year-old, Tamsin Hall, was never seen again either. The Hall family fell apart under the strain. Sally Wilkinson, the nanny, wound up living with Umber, whom she had met at the inquiry. But she never recovered from the incident, suffered increasingly from depression, and eventually committed suicide. In the spring of 2004, retired Chief Inspector George Sharp receives a letter signed “Junius” reproaching him for botching the 1981 investigation. Sharp confronts Umber, whose explanation for being at the scene of the tragedy has always seemed dubious. Obliged to accept Umber’s denial of authorship of the letter, he nonetheless forces him to join in a search for the real culprit — and hence the long-concealed truth about what happened 23 years previously. It is a quest that both will later regret having embarked upon. Too late they come to understand that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
 

Mystery unfolds; abduction shatters a peaceful village.

If you enjoy a heart-racing thriller that won't let you rest until you've turned the last page, "Sight Unseen" might just be your next favorite. Robert Goddard meticulously crafts a tense narrative that begins with an innocent scene slipping into an unforeseen nightmare. The quiet tension that stealthily builds in this small tourist village will keep you on edge, pondering the motives and moves of every character introduced.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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