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The Franchise Affair
Josephine Tey · 1948 · 238 pages
Marion Shape and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful life in their country home, the Franchise. Everything changes when a local schoolgirl accuses them of kidnap and abuse, describing the attic room of the house as her prison. Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant is called to solve the mystery of the Franchise, but will he fall right in the middle of nightmarish affair that will change a town, and its locals' lives, forever?
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Tana French
“I know, Tey again – I can’t help it. A young girl stumbles home bruised, half-dressed and half-conscious. She claims two women kidnapped and enslaved her. Robert is a peaceful country solicitor; the last thing he wants is to be drawn in on the accused women’s side… No murder here, either. The most serious crime in the whole book is basically wasting police time, you know who the villain is within the first few pages, and yet it’s a gripping book – a chilling portrait of a fledgling psychopath, and of the terrible emotional damage that psychopaths can inflict on everyone around them.”↗
