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A review by maccymacd
The Crime Writer by Jill Dawson
5.0
Where has this book been?!!! It was wonderful. Have immediately added Jill Dawson other books to my TBR pile. For a suspense, crime reader this has ticked all my boxes.
Dawson has painted a wonderfully realistic portrait of suspense writer Patricia Highsmith who has fled to Suffolk to a cottage to write her next novel. She is also contending with a strange woman named Ginny who claims to be a journalist turning up at her house, an affair with a married woman that is being hidden from the public and peculiar letters being sent to her from a stranger that are scaring her. Is she going mad? Is this actually happening? What is real and what is false? I just ADORED Dawson's writing, it flowed so easily in my head, the story was creepy and there are numerous references to Highsmith's novels woven into the fabric of the story which made it even more attractive to me.
Dawson has painted a wonderfully realistic portrait of suspense writer Patricia Highsmith who has fled to Suffolk to a cottage to write her next novel. She is also contending with a strange woman named Ginny who claims to be a journalist turning up at her house, an affair with a married woman that is being hidden from the public and peculiar letters being sent to her from a stranger that are scaring her. Is she going mad? Is this actually happening? What is real and what is false? I just ADORED Dawson's writing, it flowed so easily in my head, the story was creepy and there are numerous references to Highsmith's novels woven into the fabric of the story which made it even more attractive to me.