The Chill and the Kill

Joan Fleming

Jul 2013 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

When a young girl is struck by a car she begins to have prescient visions of death and clairvoyant knowledge. One of those visions is of a murder. The murder victim is a local woman suspected of having had several affairs despite the intense scrutiny by private detectives employed by her often traveling husband.

The chief suspect is a young man with a chequered reputation. He has recently returned under unexplained circumstances from an assignment in South America, where he became involved with a married woman who mysteriously committed suicide ...

'The farthest out mystery of the year' Sunday Times

About the author

Joan Fleming was one of the most original and literate crime writers of her generation. Born in Lancashire and educated at Lausanne University she became the wife of a Harley Street eye surgeon and mother of four, and was already a successful children's author before she turned to crime. She is the author of over thirty novels and won the CWA Gold Dagger in 1962 for When I Grow Rich and again in 1970 for Young Man, I Think You're Dying. The Deeds of Dr Deadcert was made into the 1958 film Rx for Murder.